by UT Southwestern Medical Center Graphical abstract. Credit: Brain Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac273 UT Southwestern physicians have developed an improved targeting method, four-tract tractography, to personalize MRI-guided, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) used at UTSW to treat medication refractory tremor in essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease. Results of the clinical cases utilizing this approach, published in Brain Communications,...
A scalpel-free, high-tech form of brain surgery pioneered at UVA Health offers long-term relief for patients with essential tremor, a common movement disorder, even five years after treatment, a study shows. The study offers important insights into the long-term effects of ultrasound treatments for essential tremors. Five years after treatment, clinical trial participants continued to see treated...
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM IMAGE: UVA HEALTH’S JEFF ELIAS, MD, HAS PIONEERED THE USE OF FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOR CONDITIONS THAT INCLUDE ESSENTIAL TREMOR. CREDIT: UVA HEALTH A scalpel-free, high-tech form of brain surgery pioneered at UVA Health offers long-term relief for patients with essential tremor, a common movement disorder, a five-year review shows. The study...
by West Virginia University A new study by Rashi Mehta—a researcher with the WVU School of Medicine and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute—finds that focused ultrasound may induce an immunological healing effect in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Credit: Caylie Silveria/West Virginia University West Virginia University scientists used MRI scans to show what happens when ultrasound waves target...
Patient, John Lukens’, writing samples before and after receiving MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor (ET). John Lukens recently became the first patient in Pennsylvania to receive MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor (ET). At age 61, Lukens has suffered with bilateral Essential Tremor for roughly 10 years—a condition which...
