Grand Est. Strasbourg: A Bright Path Against Alzheimer's Disease

What if a simple light were enough to fight Alzheimer's, the leading cause of dementia in the world? Researchers in Strasbourg have demonstrated that rhythmic light stimulation can restore brain dynamics altered by this neurodegenerative disease in mice.

Romain Goutagny (left), research director at Inserm, and Dr. Matthieu Aguilera (right) revived the memory of sick mice using simple LEDs. Photo: Jean-Marc Loos

In the Cognitive and Adaptive Neuroscience Laboratory in Strasbourg, immersed in a dark room, around forty mice were subjected to 40 hertz light stimulation for one hour every day. Nearly half of them suffered from an early form...

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