Unleashing light's healing power: an overview of photobiomodulation for Alzheimer's treatment

A Ramanishankar, RF Begum, N Jayasankar… - Future Science …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Photobiomodulation involves the use of low-level light therapy or near-infrared light
therapy found to be useful in the treatment of a wide range of neurological diseases …

Clinical advances in photosensitive epilepsy

V Padmanaban, S Inati, A Ksendzovsky, K Zaghloul - Brain Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Photosensitive epilepsy is the most common subset of reflex epilepsy in humans. It is
characterized by an abnormal electroencephalogram trait known as photoparoxysmal …

Photobiomodulation for major depressive disorder: Linking transcranial infrared light, biophotons and oxidative stress

WF Vieira, M Gersten, MAK Caldieraro… - Harvard Review of …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Incompletely treated major depressive disorder (MDD) poses an enormous global health
burden. Conventional treatment for MDD consists of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy …

Photobiomodulation for Alzheimer's disease: Has the light dawned?

MR Hamblin - Photonics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Next to cancer, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia is probably the most worrying health
problem facing the Western world today. A large number of clinical trials have failed to show …

Prolonged seizure activity impairs mitochondrial bioenergetics and induces cell death

S Kovac, AM Domijan, MC Walker… - Journal of cell …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
The mechanisms underlying neuronal death following excessive activity such as occurs
during prolonged seizures are unclear, but mitochondrial dysfunction has been …

Use of 31P magnetisation transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure ATP changes after 670 nm transcranial photobiomodulation in older adults

EJ Fear, FH Torkelsen, E Zamboni, KJ Chen… - Aging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial function declines with age, and many pathological processes in
neurodegenerative diseases stem from this dysfunction when mitochondria fail to produce …

Traumatic brain injury: a major medical problem that could be treated using transcranial, red/near-infrared LED photobiomodulation

MA Naeser, MR Hamblin - Photomedicine and laser surgery, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Three traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur every minute in the United States. TBI is a major
medical problem worldwide. 1 More than 5,000,000 Americans are living with TBI-related …

Therapeutic potential of intranasal photobiomodulation therapy for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders: a narrative review

F Salehpour, S Gholipour-Khalili… - Reviews in the …, 2020 - degruyter.com
The application of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) for neuronal stimulation is studied in
different animal models and in humans, and has shown to improve cerebral metabolic …

Treatment of neurodegeneration: integrating Photobiomodulation and neurofeedback in Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's: a review

MH Berman, TW Nichols - Photobiomodulation, photomedicine, and …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Objective: A review of photobiomodulation (PBM) in Alzheimer's dementia is submitted. The
addition of PBM in neurodegenerative diseases is a dual modality that is at present gaining …

Parkinson's Disease and Photobiomodulation: Potential for Treatment

B Bicknell, A Liebert, G Herkes - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2024 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and is
increasing in incidence. The combination of motor and non-motor symptoms makes this a …