Kolkata: A group of scientists at the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (INK) have performed a research in collaboration with the Institute of Neurosciences, University of New Castle, UK and have stated that it is possible to find a long-term cure for memory loss suffered by Parkinson's disease-induced dementia.
Parkinson's dementia is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that leads to tremors, muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, poor balance, mobility and loss of memory.
It has no cure, for medicines can't prevent the degeneration of the nervous system.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) or a surgical implant of a brain pacemaker that sends electrical impulses through the brain is the best known remedy so far.
But it often leads to side-effects like hallucination, cognitive dysfunction and depression.
There was no external method to cure the ailment.
According to the reports the reaserch has revealed that low-intensity current can be taken as a medium to cure the ailment .when low-intensity current sent to a particular area of the brain using an instrument on the skull, has been found to produce good results. Brain functioning, which normally drops to 15 points in Parkinson's dementia patients, goes up by 4 to 5 points though it doesn't last more than three hours but researchers here believe that if it can be stepped up and used continuously, it could lead to long-lasting recovery.
INK experimented this research on 15 Parkinson's dementia patients so far. Another 35 patients would be put through the trial over the next three months.
