Non-drug and non-invasive approach, using sound and light, would eliminate amyloid plaques. Despite the accumulation of promising experimental results, this hypothesis continues to be debated.

Can these experimental results fuel any hope of therapy? “You have to be very careful,” recommends Jean-Léon Thomas, professor in the department of neurology at Yale University (Connecticut, U.S) and at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute (ICM), in Paris.