Openwater, an open-source medical technology company delivering portable, hospital-grade diagnostic and therapeutic devices. Openwater’s device could offer a promising, affordable, and drug-free ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how ...

Scientists have found soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound aimed at a place deep in the brain called the insula can reduce both the perception of pain and other effects of pain, such as ...

Soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound reduce pain perception and associated cardiovascular effects. The corresponding study was published in Pain. Focused ultrasound delivers a narrow band ...

MIAMI - Ultrasound is commonly used for prenatal care and screenings; however, the technology and its uses are evolving and could potentially be the future of treating Alzheimer's disease and other ...

Alzheimer's disease poses a significant therapeutic challenge due to the restrictive nature of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) hindering the delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain tissue. To ...

Focused ultrasound (FUS) guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an alternative to standard treatments for neurological, oncological, and musculoskeletal diseases. The technology allows targeted ...

Wynn Legon (left), the faculty director of the transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound facilities at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Andrew Strohman, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Virginia ...

Researchers report hopeful progress in efforts to find treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. They report a recent clinical trial has demonstrated the potential of focused ultrasound to safely reduce ...

Wynn Legon, assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, authored a paper in the journal PAIN that is the first to demonstrate low-intensity focused ultrasound can penetrate ...