A Healing Spark for Alzheimer's Patients

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:43

"Years of painstaking observation and careful study is what typically leads to scientific breakthroughs, but serendipity can also play an important role, as Dr. Andres Lozano recently discovered.

Not long ago, the U of T neurosurgeon was implanting an electrode into the brain of an obese patient in an experimental procedure designed to suppress the man’s appetite. When Lozano switched on the electrode to deliver tiny electrical pulses, the patient (who was awake for the surgery) suddenly remembered a visit to a park with his girlfriend 30 years earlier."