Can Light Therapy Ameliorate Symptoms of Parkinsons Disease?
Can Light Therapy Ameliorate Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease? Tuesday July 14, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)For years now doctors have been treating various forms of depression with light therapy. The patient literally sits in front of a bank of lights for a few hours per day and that treatment really does improve some forms of depression. Recently the therapy has been tried for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Not only to treat the depression of PD but to treat its motor problems as well. Why should light therapy help reduce symptoms of PD? Well you see light, when it reaches certain levels of intensity can inhibit production of a chemical called melatoninand melatonin in turn can limit production of dopamine. So if you inhibit production of melatonin you should get better production and use of dop
