Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...

This clinical trial will determine whether focused ultrasound can safely and effectively treat metastatic brain tumors when ...

As these systems evolve, I believe therapeutic ultrasound is poised to become medicine's next general-purpose platform.

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Parkinson's disease is no longer viewed as a faraway neurological ailment buried in textbooks. More than 10 million people ...

New technologies are changing the way we live at a pace that borders on the miraculous. In particular, modern medicine stands as one of humanity’s most awe-inspiring achievements. Technologies like ...

Two new studies have found that using focused ultrasound to open up the blood-brain barrier generated a positive immune response in the brain and allowed for the admission of gene-editing technology.

Researchers in the lab of Wynn Legon, the faculty director of the transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound facilities at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, demonstrate the use of ...

Aducanumab (Aduhelm) infusions combined with focused ultrasound led to lower cerebral amyloid-beta levels in Alzheimer's disease, a proof-of-concept trial showed. The investigational treatment ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in Alzheimer’s therapy. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Acoustic signals from microbubbles can measure how well focused ultrasound opens the blood-brain barrier. The ...