Neurological
The Foundation considers the brain to be the vanguard target for focused ultrasound.
Given the challenges of accessing the brain and the high cost and limitations of some current approaches, we believe that this noninvasive technology has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of many brain disorders.
Focused ultrasound has the potential to transform treatment by gaining access deep within the brain without harming healthy tissue, ablate targeted tissue without exposing the brain to the effects of ionizing radiation, and enable the reversible opening of the blood-brain barrier to deliver therapeutic agents to targeted diseased areas.
Neurological Conditions
- Addiction
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Ataxia
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Tumors
- Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cognitive Impairment
- Depression
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy
- Essential Tremor
- Fibromyalgia
- Glioblastoma
- Headaches
- Holmes Tremor
- Huntington's Disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy of Prematurity (HIEP)
- Insomnia
- Mood Disorder
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Nerve Injury Requiring Grafting
- Neuroblastoma
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuropathic Pain
- Neuropathy
- Neuropathy, Peripheral
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Pain, Chronic
- Painful Amputation Neuromas
- Parkinson's Disease
- Poisoning
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Rett Syndrome
- Schizophrenia
- Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Stroke, Thromboembolic
- Tourette Syndrome
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tremor, Orthostatic
- Trigeminal Neuralgia