Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease News | September 18, 2019
There is finally some encouraging news for the millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer disease (AD). NeuroEM Therapeutics today announced findings from an open label clinical trial showing reversal of cognitive impairment in AD patients after just two months of treatment using the company’s wearable head device for in-home treatment. Results demonstrate that TEMT was safe in all eight participating patients with mild to moderate AD and enhanced cognitive performance in seven of them, as measured by their ADAS-cog score, which is the benchmark for testing AD therapeutics.
The investigators had previously demonstrated that treating AD mice with electromagnetic waves in the radiofrequency range resulted in protection against memory impairment in young AD mice and reversal of memory impairment in aged AD mice.
For the present clinical study in humans, the investigators used the same treatment (twice daily for 1-hour) through creation of NeuroEM’s first-in-class MemorEMTM head device. The device has multiple, highly-specialized emitters positioned within a head cap that are activated sequentially, with treatments easily administered in-home by the patient’s caregiver. As well, the device allows for near complete mobility to perform nearly all household activities during treatments.
