A new treatment room for dementia patients has been established in Wallingford.
Dr Dan Casey, who specialises in dementia in his full-time role for the NHS, has begun offering a pioneering treatment out-of-hours in Howbery Business Park’s Manor House.
Dr Casey said: "At Howbery, I am offering an add-on treatment for people with Alzheimer's using the Neurolith Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS) machine.
"I really like it because it is non-invasive and painless – it uses sound waves to stimulate areas of the brain identified in a scan."
Dr Casey is collaborating with Dr Marco Fabus from the University of Oxford to further the evidence base for the new treatment.
He added: “I already knew the park as my children go to Puddleduck Nursery here, and I thought the setting would be ideal for my clinic.
"Our patients like the grounds and the historic architecture, which have a more therapeutic feel than a hospital.
"Some of our patients travel some distance to get here, and enjoy spending time in the Howbery grounds and discovering Wallingford."
Dr Casey plans to expand the clinic by inviting other doctors to offer pioneering treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions.
He is also working with Dr Anastasia Demina at the Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital and University of Burgundy to summarise the results of patient outcomes from across Europe, Asia and America.
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