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 ...
A brief pulse of ultrasound can gently influence a split second decision by stimulating a small brain area linked to eye ...
Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific ...
The trouble with many drugs is that they go where they shouldn’t, producing unwanted side effects. Psychiatric drugs might cause dissociation, painkillers can induce nausea and chemotherapy often ...
Treating the brain with sound waves could be a radical new treatment for depression. New research shows short bursts of ultrasound (sound waves above the range of human hearing), at just 30 seconds a ...
The trouble with many drugs is that they go where they shouldn’t, producing unwanted side effects. Psychiatric drugs might cause dissociation, painkillers can induce nausea and chemotherapy often ...
The use of sound waves of high frequency, to penetrate the skin and generate an electronic photographic image or video of an internal organ, is called ultrasonography or ultrasound. Only soft tissues ...
The ultrasound scan is one of the most widely used and most valuable diagnostic tools in modern medicine. It came into medical practice more than 50 years ago and is now an essential facility in today ...
When medicines go to the wrong places in the body, the results can be rough. Antidepressants may cause feelings of detachment, chemotherapy can harm healthy tissues, and painkillers often bring nausea ...