More Encouraging Focused Ultrasound News

[jimcaster]

I readily admit that I don't understand much of this article, but I do understand that it's another encouraging bit of information regarding focused ultrasound with specific potential for treatment of Parkinson's Disease and may other ailments.

"Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy and insomnia are just a few of the neurological disorders that use neuromodulation treatment techniques today.

Neuromodulation delivers controlled physical energy to the nervous system to treat and improve patients’ quality of life. Current neuromodulation approaches, while effective, bring both drawbacks and limitations.

Deep brain stimulation, which is highly successful, but an invasive form of electric stimulation through implanted electrodes, is one example of how neuromodulation is being used in a clinical setting today,” explained Bin He, professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University."

neurosciencenews.com/focuse...

[Smittybear7]

Thanks for sharing. Carnegie Mellon is about 10 miles from my house. Keep me posted

[Isthistheone]

Hi Jim hope you are feeling well. Thanks for the very encouraging news on FUS. All of us are hoping this flies. Just my opinion, this technology is the best news we've had in years! This is technology that's proven as witnessed by dozens of PWP who are tremor dominant. Give it time.

[felixned]

This is just a description of the concept and even if it's found to be viable it would take years to become available.

Here is an interesting alternative:

bioelecmed.biomedcentral.co...

[Canddy]

Thanks for the article jimcastor - very intriguing and we have another acronym to follow tFUS! Have a nice weekend!