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The brain responds to various stimuli by changing its regulatory protein environment. There are different wave patterns during sleep, waking, focus, rest, shock
by WhompingWindows 7y ago
The brain responds to various stimuli by changing its regulatory protein environment. There are different wave patterns during sleep, waking, focus, rest, shock, fear, etc. You may see other studies involving magnetism or light stimulation or sonic stimulation, and they work by inducing brain states, not by actively targeting proteins themselves.
Think of it: how could you get a specific magnetic effect to just those beta-amyloid or tau proteins and not the 10,000 other proteins in the brain? These magnetic devices induce changes in the brain state, not in individual protein states... they nudge the brain to employ its own cleaning apparatuses.
- xwolfi 7y agoNo that's not what it said. First there s no such thing as a brain state, second yes ofc the waves can target these specific proteins, they explain why in the article: the hydrogen bond between atoms of the molecules of the proteins would be "weak enough" to be broken. And, to be honest, they said it's hard to verify what happens inside and it s a limited study: maybe it does destroy a lot more. In any case stop spitting nonsense brain state magic :)
- dTal 7y ago>how could you get a specific magnetic effect to just those beta-amyloid or tau proteins and not the 10,000 other proteins in the brain? By selecting a pattern of wavelengths and phases that causes different parts of that specific protein to resonate out of phase? I don't know how much structural specificity one could achieve with such a method, but not zero I should think.