Medical ultrasound is widely known. Cardiologists use it to check the heart is pumping normally. Ophthalmologists use it to check for detached retinas and for tumors. But its most familiar application ...

When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...

Current systems emphasize sight and sound, with some progress in haptics. Smell remains largely absent, despite its unusually ...

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique. With ultrasonic brain stimulation, she was ...

Getting light deep inside the body has always come with a catch. Tissue scatters and absorbs it, which means doctors and ...

FUS utilizes multiple beams of relatively low-frequency ultrasound (generally within 0.2–3 MHz, depending on the application ...

A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma made significant progress after receiving an ultrasound treatment designed to galvanize brain function, according to a new report published in Brain ...

The first picture taken of a person nowadays is usually an ultrasound scan in the womb. But the technology is capable of much more than that. Physiotherapists have long used ultrasound to heat bodily ...

When you hear "brain-computer interface," you probably picture surgery, wires and a chip in your head. Now picture something quieter. No implant. No incision. Just sound waves directed at the brain.

Light has an increasing number of applications in biology and medicine—it can be used to stimulate cell growth, manipulate ...