Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research outlines how focused ultrasound could reveal which brain regions cause conscious perception in healthy humans.

Focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles is increasingly being used to safely and reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of brain tumors and neurodegenerative disorders.

Picture this: a painless, radiation-free scan that can look inside your body in real time. From monitoring pregnancies to detecting heart problems, ultrasound radiology quietly powers millions of ...

Artificial intelligence is giving an assist to pregnant women and their care teams to help those moms deliver healthy babies. Ultrasounds are a routine part of prenatal care, but the Gates Foundation ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

A brief pulse of ultrasound can gently influence a split second decision by stimulating a small brain area linked to eye ...

What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...

Chinese company Gestala develops non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interfaces as alternative to surgical implants, targeting chronic pain treatment.

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Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and behavior studies have linked awareness to certain neural patterns, but ...