Sunnybrook Research Institute

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Ultrasound prises open blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy in a world first

Researchers have non-invasively breached the blood-brain barrier for the first time in a human subject, allowing chemotherapy drugs to be delivered to a brain cancer patient with a high level of precision.
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Ultrasound technique shown to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided ultrasound has shown to help treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The technique was found to improve brain performance in the animals and has the researchers hopeful that the technique may prove effective in improving cognitive behavior in humans.