Oh, absolutely. And we have studies going on now where people can wear a headband at home and they’re receiving pink noise. It’s not a noise that you necessarily hear, but their brain is being stimulated. These little sound pulses are trying to stimulate those particular sleep physiology markers that we studied to try and see if by doing that, we can actually improve that sleep activity so that they preserve their cognition, so that it may influence their biomarkers...
Oh, absolutely. And we have studies going on now where people can wear a headband at home and they’re receiving pink noise. It’s not a noise that you necessarily hear, but their brain is being stimulated. These little sound pulses are trying to stimulate those particular sleep physiology markers that we studied to try and see if by doing that, we can actually improve that sleep activity so that they preserve their cognition, so that it may influence their biomarkers. So that’s one. It’s called closed-loop acoustic stimulation. It’s something we’re studying in Montreal and with our partners in Spain, but also even something like exercise. Believe it or not, we never think of this. The lifestyle things are so important. It’s more than just about biomarkers and pharmaceuticals. Exercise, we know, improves sleep, especially with people with Alzheimer’s. We’ve shown that in our own work. Exercise improves cognition. It improves mood. Exercise also modifies that sleep physiology. So even something like having older adults at risk of decline or who are declining, exercise really influences that sleep physiology, and that might be another way of really preserving their brain health. So we can do it with these devices, we can do it just by lifestyle modifications, even having people exposed to more enriching experiences. So I think the future really is going to be these multimodal combinations. It could be with pharmaceuticals, but we really need the lifestyle, the multimodal things. And that is where sleep comes in beautifully as well.
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