Near infrared light brain implant for Parkinson's Disease

Reinhart et al, 2015, Nearinfrared light (670 nm) reduces MPTPinduced parkinsonism within a broad therapeutic time window. 

This study was one in an impressive research series by the Mitrofanis/Benabid teams showing that shining 670nm light directly onto the damaged dopamine-producing cells resulted in a complete cure with restoration of the function of those cells. Even if the damage was well established and severe, the implanted light was a cure. 

Prof Alim Benabid, by the way, developed DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation, and it is his expertise that helped develop the deep brain light implant. If I had Parkinson’s disease, I’d be heading over to Grenoble in France, to ask Prof Benabid about getting a light implant. 

It will be a game-changer in treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Click here.