When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

Ultrasound therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It uses ultrasound to open the blood-brain ...

Kiwi scientists are contributing to global breakthroughs in brain science, with five papers involving Gisborne-based Mātai ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

United States Transcranial low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) enables noninvasive, targeted, and reversible blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption, facilitating drug delivery and liquid biopsy of ...

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...

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Adopting the new tool, named micro-ultrasound – or microUS – would free-up scarce MRI scanners for other uses, experts added. It is the first randomised trial to compare microUS procedures ...

Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction - but it is a reality for Noland Arbaugh. In January 2024 - eight years after he ...