Patients who received low-level light therapy showed a greater change in resting-state connectivity in seven brain region pairs during the acute-to-subacute recovery phase compared to the control participants .
Light Therapy Increases Brain Connectivity Following Injury
Patients who received low-level light therapy showed a greater change in resting-state connectivity in seven brain region pairs during the acute-to-subacute recovery phase compared to the control participants .
Low-level light therapy appears to affect healing in the brains of people who suffered significant brain injuries , according to a study published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North America ( RSNA ).
Lights of different wavelengths have been studied for years for their wound-healing properties . Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) conducted low-level light therapy on 38 patients who had suffered moderate traumatic brain injury , an injury to the head serious enough to alter cognition and / or be visible on a brain scan . Patients
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