A Breakthrough Method: Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Ultrasound on the Brain | Newsweek Romania

The development of interface technologies that can engage precisely in any brain region and circuit can combine diagnosis with therapeutic intervention, accelerating personalized brain therapy. Ultrasound, which until now has been used almost exclusively to obtain images of the body, is rapidly becoming a targeted therapy that can target the brain, according to the authors of a new study.

A revolutionary method: Exploring the therapeutic potential of ultrasound on the brain

For decades, healthcare professionals around the world have used ultrasound as a way to monitor the development of unborn babies and to assess the health of patients’ organs. Now researchers are working to develop an innovative technique that uses focused ultrasound waves to target and affect specific areas of the brain.

In an article published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers from Stanford University, Plymouth University and Attune Neurosciences in England now say they have proven that ultrasound provides a non-invasive and precise to target specific areas of the human brain.

This will allow them to study how a technique called transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) can help people with conditions such as pain, alcoholism, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Parkinson’s disease, without ‘ use of drugs or surgery.

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