Two Devices Treat Alzheimer's
From: Technology Review - 05/12/2011
By: Emily Singer

Companies hope that brain stimulation will work where drugs have failed. 

Two startup companies aim to solve these problem developing Alzheimer's drugs
by targeting the brain electrically rather than chemically. They're both
using technologies that have proven successful for other brain disorders. One
company plans to use deep brain stimulation, which has been used to treat
tens of thousands of Parkinson's patients. The other hopes to find success
with transcranial magnetic stimulation, a noninvasive approach used to treat
depression and as a research tool to stimulate or inhibit specific parts of
the brain. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37553/

Links:
Andres Lozano
http://www.surg.med.utoronto.ca/faculty/Lozano.html

Functional Neuromodulation
http://www.functionalneuromodulation.com/

Neuronix
http://www.neuronixmedical.com/