New research shows that ultrasound waves emitted from a device implanted in a cancer patient's skull could be the key to getting chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs into the brain. Photo by Adobe ...

The skull is so effective at protecting the brain that it has impeded the progress of neuroscience. In particular: A nice, thick skull poses challenges for imaging the brain in natural environments or ...

Noé Jiménez, the lead author at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (centre) and colleague: Credit: Noé Jiménez Better brain imaging or even drug delivery could be possible thanks to researchers at ...

Ultrasound could help alleviate mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. In a new National Health Service (NHS) trial, scientists are exploring the use of ultrasound to directly influence ...

Researchers may have a new way to watch the brain pulse, thanks to an ultrasound probe and a tiny window in the skull. This acoustically transparent hole allowed a team in California to capture, using ...

A team of engineering researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology hopes to uncover new ways to diagnose and treat brain ailments, from tumors and stroke to Parkinson's disease, leveraging ...

Two men in their late 403 left Iowa City’s University Hospital last week and boarded planes to carry them to their homes in the South. Each walked with a fast, short-stepped gait (“festination”) and ...

One of the biggest obstacles to treating brain cancer is getting tumor-killing drugs past the blood-brain barrier that normally protects the brain from foreign invaders. Now, new research shows that ...