The physicist of the rehabilitation center Euxia in ThessalonikiEleftherios Stefas was a guest speaker at the workshop held on 21 September at the Palaio Faliro Town Hall in Athens on the occasion of the World Alzheimer's Day.
The Workshop "Cognitive decline and old age: myth & reality" was organized by the Department of Rehabilitation of Patients with Neurological Diseases and Geriatric Rehabilitation of the Hellenic Society of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in collaboration with the Hellenic Psychiatric Society.
The topic of his speech was ''The application of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques can help elderly patients with cognitive impairment : true or false ?''.
Of the non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (N.I.B.S.), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-T.M.S.) has been used mostly for the treatment of drug-resistant depression resulting in improvement & other neuropsychiatric symptoms such as mild cognitive impairment.
The N.I.B.S. techniques. are rather safe, have been well studied & promise very good results in healthy older people. Similarly transcranial electrical stimulation (t-DCS) can in turn offer significant benefits with much easier to handle devices and maximum safety.
