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b'Transformation Today\\n\\nHow flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer\\u2019s, improve memory and more\\n\\nNeuroscientists are getting excited about non-invasive procedures to tune the brain\\u2019s natural oscillations.\\n\\nIn March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering strobe. The mice \\u2014 which had been engineered to produce plaques of the peptide amyloid-\\u03b2 in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer\\u2019s disease \\u2014 crawled about curiously. When Tsai later dissected them, those that had been to the mini dance parties had significantly lower levels of plaque than mice that had spent the same time in the dark1.\\n\\nNow, a growing body of evidence, including Tsai\\u2019s findings, hint at a meaningful connection to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer\\u2019s and Parkinson\\u2019s diseases.\\n\\nA non-intrusive path into the brain is a holy grail of sorts.\\n\\nIf these treatments are even moderately or minimally successful, or they lead to treatments that are, it could be the start of a revolution in preventing and treating the whole range of disorders associated with aging.\\n\\nWhat other effects are possible? Might there be a set of oscillations to treat depression? To improve sleep? To build confidence? To generate state of euphoria or enlightenment?\\n\\nThis is what \\u201cBinaural beats\\u201d claim to be able to do. But what if there is really something to it?\\n\\nWT 414-727\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0'