An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...

Alternatively, data from all transducers can be used while limiting the focal depth, allowing more transmit-receive pulses to ...

Neurodegenerative diseases remain some of the most difficult conditions to treat. Disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s gradually destroy brain cells, leaving people with worsening memory, ...

Medical ultrasound is widely known. Cardiologists use it to check the heart is pumping normally. Ophthalmologists use it to check for detached retinas and for tumors. But its most familiar application ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Danny Lewis: Hey, Future of Everything listeners, a quick note before we get into ...

Focused ultrasound with microbubbles is a noninvasive procedure that transiently opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using low-intensity sound waves. The openings reseal within 24 hours. Using MRI to ...

When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received MRI-guided focused ultrasound with chemotherapy survived nearly 40% longer than those who ...