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Could light and sound treat Alzheimer’s disease?

05 Apr 2019 Samuel Vennin 
Reducing amyloid plaques
The mouse cortex shows a reduction in amyloid plaques following visual and auditory stimulation (left), compared with the untreated mouse (right). (Courtesy: Gabrielle Drummond, MIT)
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that combining light and sonic

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Samuel Vennin is a contributor to Physics World. Samuel is an engineer working at the intersection between cardiovascular medicine and numerical modelling at St Thomas Hospital, London, UK, where he also obtained his PhD. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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