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There's a family in Columbia with a genetic mutation too:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28514-conquistador-br...

There's a weird light discovery that may be helpful in treating alzheimer's.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/visual-stimulation-treatment-alzhei...

60 Minutes recently featured the Columbia-based research. Can't testify to the scientific rigor of the report, but it was very interesting to this layman.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-alzheimers-disease-me...

Great Radiolab podcast about the MIT discovery -- http://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/

That was a good podcast, but I was frustrated that they hadn't even tried it yet on humans, as it seemed such a simple experiment. They said they will do it next, but I'd have preferred they waited a few months and then reported it (even if it didn't work on humans).

Well, as far as I can tell, the result only demonstrated a reduction of amyloid plaque in the visual cortex, so an experiment on humans wouldn't really work (you have to kill the subjects and inspect their brains for the current experiment).

if you listen to the podcast, you'll realize that you don't need to do that.

I did... how would you measure the effectiveness of the strobe in humans?

Memory tests, just like with the mice?

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