Question: Will this help cure dementia

Christopher Bullock answered on 13 Jun 2017:

Dementia is one of the biggest problems facing our society. Unfortunately, we dont yet understand how and why it happens (but there are lots of scientists working on it). For this reason, I don’t think my neuroelectrodes will be used to treat dementia for at least the next 20 years or so (you have to understand a disease to be able to treat it).

However, there have been some studies done by the US air force, where they have been using electrical stimulation of the brain to increase the concentration of their fighter pilots. Again, we don’t completely understand why this works, but it does. It is possible that the same technology could be helpful to people with dementia (to improve their focus) but this has not been tested. My job is just to make electrical stimulation work as well as it can for the many diseases that are already treated by this technology.