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The Right Lighting Can Calm Alzheimer's Patients
6 monthes ago - By Web MD
Changing the lighting in nursing homes to regulate residents' sleep and wake cycles helped decrease sleep disturbance, depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's, the authors of a new study say.
Read more ...Monitored light intervention helps improve sleep in Alzheimer's disease
6 monthes ago - By Healio
Mariana G. Figueiro
Daytime light - when carefully delivered and tailored to individual patients' eyes and monitored with a calibrated instrument - can improve sleep, mood and agitation in nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, data presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference revealed.
“The research is important because it is nonpharmacological,” Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, director of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, told Healio Psychiatry. “Being
Read more ...Could Pot-Linked Drug Help Alzheimer's Agitation?
6 monthes ago - By Web MD
Canadian researchers found that a form of synthetic THC - ingredient in pot that gets you high - significantly decreased agitation in a small group of Alzheimer's patients, working even better than the drugs now used.
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