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

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 ...

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 ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Neurologist Sun Bomin’s mother led him to believe that Alzheimer’s disease might not be incurable after all. On January 21, ...

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 ...

Greek scientist Elisa Konofagou, PhD, is a pioneer in the development of ultrasound method for diagnosis and treatment of ...