Shining light on the head: Photobiomodulation for brain disorders
Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology · Massachusetts General Hospital · +1 more institution
Abstract
Photobiomodulation (PBM) describes the use of red or near-infrared light to stimulate, heal, regenerate, and protect tissue that has either been injured, is degenerating, or else is at risk of dying. One of the organ systems of the human body that is most necessary to life, and whose optimum functioning is most worried about by humankind in general, is the brain. The brain suffers from many different disorders that can be classified into three broad groupings: traumatic events (stroke, traumatic brain injury, and global ischemia), degenerative diseases (dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's), and psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder). There is some evidence that all these…
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1Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Traumatic brain injury
- Dementia
- Neuroscience
- Anxiety
- Forehead
- Psychiatry
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Good health and well-being