26-01-2018 02:01 via montrealgazette.com

Trial using magnetic pulses in bid to halt Alzheimer's progress

Serge Gervais says he couldn’t watch passively as his wife of 42 years slowly lost her memory. She had received a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disorder that destroys brain cells.
So Gervais went to the internet looking for ways to ease her symptoms, from drug therapies to cannabis oil, and then he found an international clinical trial in Montreal run by the McGill University Health Centre. The study uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain.
Researchers
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