First Alzheimerâ??s Patient Treated with Focused Ultrasound to Open Blood-Brain Barrier The Blood-Brain barrier prevents almost all potentially therapeutic ***** from passing into the brain. This has been a major roadblock for clinical neurology, but we may have a solution, perhaps a partial one, in the form of Focused ultrasound. The First Alzheimer’s Patient has just been Treated using Ultrasound to Open up the Blood-Brain barrier in his brain. Though ** ***** have been administered, the researchers are evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the technique on such patients. Previously, only chemo agents have been delivered into the brain by opening the Blood-Brain barrier using ultrasound, but if this study goes well the next step will involve drug delivery.
The researchers are using using an Exablate Neuroآ*system from Insightec to deliverآ*low frequency Ultrasound into the brain. It’s already used in the U.S. to help control essential tremor and in Europe for a number of other neurological disorders.
Here’s a video about the research from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada where the study is being undertaken:
05-06-2017, 06:51 PM
First Alzheimer’s Patient Treated with Focused Ultrasound to Open Blood-Brain Barri
The Blood-Brain barrier prevents almost all potentially therapeutic ***** from passing into the brain. This has been a major roadblock for clinical neurology, but we may have a solution, perhaps a partial one, in the form of Focused ultrasound. The First Alzheimer’s Patient has just been Treated using Ultrasound to Open up the Blood-Brain barrier in his brain. Though ** ***** have been administered, the researchers are evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the technique on such patients. Previously, only chemo agents have been delivered into the brain by opening the Blood-Brain barrier using ultrasound, but if this study goes well the next step will involve drug delivery.
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