Using a mobile 'may reverse Alzheimer's'

CHATTING on a mobile phone may protect against Alzheimer's and even reverse the disease, new research suggests.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Jan 2010, 10:36 BST
Updated 7th Jan 2010, 10:36 BST

Scientists found that mice with Alzheimer's were effectively cured after being exposed to the electromagnetic waves produced by mobile phones.

Sticky brain deposits of a harmful protein linked to the disease were erased, and the animals' thinking ability and memory returned to normal levels.

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Professor Gary Arendash, from the University of South Florida's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, who led the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, said: "It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer's symptoms.

"It was even more astonishing that the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones actually reversed memory impairment in old Alzheimer's mice."