Magnetic device (not available for years) may improve deep sleep

[Sasha]

Interesting thing on yesterday's Horizon programme on dementia on the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/horizon-curing-alzheimers

To encourage deep sleep, Professor Matt Walker, from the University of California, Berkeley (pictured), is experimenting with a newly developed magnetic stimulation device. He wants to find out if it can encourage deep sleep and strengthen memories while we are sleeping. He hopes that if the experiments are successful the machine will become a major tool in the prevention of amyloid build-up. At the moment the magnetic stimulator is only available for research purposes.

Given PWME's problems with insomnia, I wondered if this had any promise for us. Not available outside research for several years yet, apparently.

Here's the programme on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07bgqdq/horizon-20152016-9-curing-alzheimers