Science: Strasbourg researchers test light stimulation against Alzheimer's disease

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 of Alzheimer's. The result? After two weeks, the sick mice had regained improved brain fluidity and better memory abilities.

"We found it hard to believe; it was too good to be true," says Romain Goutagny, research director at the CNRS. "Especially, a month later...

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