I'm now at a new level in my efforts to influence public opinion regarding the use of noninvasive treatments for cognitive and behavioral symptoms associated with dementia. We've now had a report on a multi-site, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial conducted within the Dept. of Neurosurgery at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center which is affiliated with Texas A&M School of Medicine published in a peer-reviewed journal 

Stimulation as a concept evokes all manner of associations from sexual to intellectual and all stops in between up and down the spinal column. The need for an anxieties associated with stimulation fill many books and other forms of artistic and cultural expression. There is a growing appreciation for the application of light stimulation as a healing methodology especially in the context of neurological disorders including dementia or memory loss, movement disorders like Parkinson's and ALS and the myriad of challenges that arise from exposure to the modern sources of toxicity, eg. pollutants and electromagnetic fields and those we have lived with for millenia and are only now beginning to recognize like Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.  

This article is a good source for basic information on photobiomodulation and more about the Vielight product line. We've been pleased with what we have been able to achieve using the Vielight with some patients and disappointed where the need for broader stimulation at different pulse rates and depth was needed. We can now provide alternative treatment options when the Vielight is not the appropriate tool for the job in our opinion. Our expertise and experience can be very helpful to folks who are looking for specific results and have a unique set of clinical conditions and history that really needs to be considered closely in order to provide the optimal protocol for using photobiomodulation. This kind of information is not what you get from a blog post or a device review and certainly not from the manufacturer's website as this would be a violation of the boundaries around making claims beyond what you are cleared to make by the regulatory bodies that manage medical device registration etc.  

Seek professional clinical consultation for specific application of these technologies to safely and reliably get what you are seeking from these highly effective and promising tools. 

www.alexfergus.com/blog/vielight-review-does-red-light-on-the-brain-up-the-nose-improves-cognitive-function

We are seeing a remarkable moment in our field where pretiigious laboraories like Ben Gurion University are making claims of new breakthroughs in the field of neurophysiology​ that for some of us are coming about 50 years after the fact. This report notes that EEG activity of people with neurodegenerative diseases exhibit predictably altered patterns of brain electrical activity that can be measured noninvasively. The focus is on non focal seizure activity that relates to abnormalities in cortical perfusion. Our lab described this in an early poster at the 2009 International Alzheimer's Association meeting in Vienna. We showed that subjects were able to modify their brainwave activity using operant conditioning methods which translated into improved behavioral and cogntitive functioning on a number of neuropsychological test measures.

In a study published in 2017 we showed that near infrared spactroscopy of subjects receiving daily transcranial and intraocular pulsed near-infrared light therapy showed a significant increase in the range of perfusion and extraction of blood flow in the frontal lobes. These increases also correlated with improve cognitive functioning, behavior and mood stability. 

Hopefully, these institutions will consider integrating these approaches and noting the potential synergistic potential as we are doing now in our current trials.
 
www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/ben-gurion-university-researchers-introduce-new-method-for-diagnosing-neurological-and-psychiatric-conditions-301224620.html

The recent report from the University of Cambridge has reinforced the longstanding view of many clinicians and researchers in the neurofeedback community that improving neural connectivity is critical to improving cognitive, behavioral and other functions. Their research on children with learning challenges demonstrated the importance of modifying neural connection hubs rather than specific locations. 

 “Scientists have argued for decades that there are specific brain regions that predict having a particular learning disorder or difficulty, but we’ve shown that this isn’t the case,” said Dr Duncan Astle, senior author on the study. “In fact, it’s much more important to consider how these brain areas are connected – specifically, whether they are connected via hubs. The severity of learning difficulties was strongly associated with the connectedness of these hubs, we think because these hubs play a key role in sharing information between brain areas.”

Neurofeedback and neuromodulation techniques including photobiomodulation have shown that intervening at the network level can produchttps://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/learning-difficulties-due-to-poor-connectivity-not-specific-brain-regions-study-shows significant improvements across many different areas of functioning. The research now being done at Quietmind Foundation in collaboration with their study partners at Baylor Research Institute in Temple, TX has demonstrated this to be the case for helping reverse both motor, mood and cognitive functioning in older adults with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Future trials will integrate targeted light stimulation with neurofeedback training of specific brain networks to see how this may improve the robustness of clinical outcomes compared to light therapy alone.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/learning-difficulties-due-to-poor-connectivity-not-specific-brain-regions-study-shows

In 2018, Dr Berman was invited to speak about how Photobiomodulation (Light Therapy) & Neurofeedback (brain mapping) could help those with Alzheimer's, Dementia, or Parkinson's. During this podcast, Dr Berman shares his experiences as a psychotherapist that helped him recognize how there could be potentially many neurological disorders that were caused by undiagnosed traumatic brain injury. Through this realization, he set to explore how he could combine brain mapping (using a QEEG) and photobiomodulation as a treatment for other neurological disorders like Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Parkinson's.

Photobiomodulation (light therapy) is the process of using Near Infrared Light to both stimulate blood flow in your brain and protein. This light is pulsed at a specific frequency between the range of 700 and 900 nanometers, and then a QEEG (brain mapping) is used to monitor the changes in a person's brain.

At the end of 2020, Dr. Berman completed his recruitment for study (granted by the National Institute of Health (NIH)) that will follow the progress of a 100 patients with with early to mid-stage dementia. In early 2021, he hopes to have published the results of this study. 

I want to share this important news about a treatment for COVID 19 that has been upgraded by CDC and has been shown to be quite helpful as a prophylactic and early intervention therapeutic intervention. This report is from our functional medicine colleagues at Health Revival Partners with whom we collaborate on all our cases where evaluation of underlying metabolic, infectious factors. They play a key role in our 3-pronged treatment approach of digital neurotherapeutics, photobiomodulation and functional medicine.

www.healthrevivalpartners.com/post/ivermectin-for-covid-breaking-news?postId=60037fbf9d380e00dd5bf9be

Recent evidence is proving that COVID19 causes serious white matter damage much like that caused by stroke. I am sharing this with everyone as it is quite clear that my not having sustained neurological injury from my experience with CV19 last April is due to my intensive use of transcranial photobiomodulation therapy. I treated myself with the Cognitolite device 2-4xdaiky for 5 weeks during the period I was infected and then 3-5 x / week thereafter. I also used 5 doses of clarithromycin, 2G vitC 3-4x/day, 5000iu D3, 50mcg zinc.

There is published evidence that this type of stimulation has improved healing rates against viruses eg, MRSA and improved cognitive cognitive functions of people struggling with various forms of dementia.

I encourage the use of near infrared LED light stimulation and am participating in several studies to further describe the mechanism of action.

see the equipment section of this website for several options including the Cognitolite now available for purchase.

​https://www.mdlinx.com/news/autopsies-reveal-the-terrible-damage-covid-19-can-inflict-on-the-human-brain/1lPyrFMMcvzbGNvu7xiNXr?show_order=5&utm_campaign=All+1/8/2021+Evening+Alert+-snippet+header&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iPost&ipost_environment=m3usainc&iqs=9z2zfa8ic4hg3p46crrllj9jhpqhr4gk689s8ameta8