A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research outlines how focused ultrasound could reveal which brain regions cause conscious perception in healthy humans.

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 ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Sixty-nine patients with Parkinson's disease received focused-ultrasound treatment in a randomized trial. Almost 70% responded favorably to the treatment. Thirty-nine of the ...

Insightec, a global healthcare company dedicated to using focused ultrasound to transform patient care, today announced that France has officially published national reimbursement for unilateral ...

A new study presents a novel, noninvasive method for reducing involuntary movements, or dyskinesia, and motor impairment in people receiving treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The new method uses ...

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 ...

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.

Focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles is increasingly being used to safely and reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of brain tumors and neurodegenerative disorders.

Verasonics, Inc., the leader in research ultrasound, today announced the release of a significant update for its Vantage NXT Research Ultrasound platform. The release introduces advanced hardware ...