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Re:Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia mov... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:13AM (#18724588)
You might not need ultrasound though, eg https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02391-6.

I can't find the link now, on mobile, but I found reference to using low frequency sound/light and that (anecdotally) individuals had tried this with their Alzheimer suffering relatives and had great success, like miraculous recovery of memory.

I wonder if there is a natural occupational exposure (CRT TV?) that could give evidence here, like if fewer people long-term exposed to low frequency sound/light get Alz?

Related: prenatal ultrasound could be significantly damaging, https://www.pnas.org/content/103/34/12903.full.

Re:Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia mov... by NickM on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:04AM (#18726036)
There was a great Radiolab episode about the lower-frequency stuff. IIRC, the hypothesis there is that you can stimulate certain types of brainwaves that tend to run on similar frequencies, so that seems like it's probably working via a separate mechanism from the proposed effects of the ultrasound treatment, since ultrasound is way too high-frequency to correspond to any known brainwave frequencies. Perhaps both treatments could be complementary, though, assuming they both pan out.