Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation as a Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2015, a patient in hospice with Alzheimer's disease (AD) was treated with ionizing radiation to her brain using repeated CT scans. Improvement in cognition, speech, movement, and appetite was observed. These improvements were so momentous that she was discharged from the hospice to a long-term care home. Based on this case, we conducted a pilot clinical trial to examine the effect of low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) in severe AD.

Objective

To determine whether the previously reported benefits of LDIR in a single case with AD could be observed again in other cases with AD when the same treatments are given.

Methods

In this single-arm study, four patients were treated with three consecutive treatments of LDIR, each spaced two weeks apart. Qualitative cha

SUBMITTER: Cuttler JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8150498 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature