Hearing out Ultrasound Neuromodulation

Raag D Airan; Kim Butts Pauly

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.05.031

Hearing out Ultrasound Neuromodulation

Neuron. 2018 Jun 6;98(5):875-877. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.05.031.

Authors

Raag D Airan¹, Kim Butts Pauly²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: rairan@stanford.edu.
² Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: kimbutts@stanford.edu.

PMID: 29879389
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.05.031

Abstract

Many neuroscientists are excited regarding the potential of ultrasound to yield spatiotemporally precise and noninvasive modulation of arbitrary brain regions. Here, Guo et al. (2018) and Sato et al. (2018) show that applying ultrasound to rodent brains activates acoustic responses more prominently than eliciting neuromodulation directly, suggesting potential confounds of ultrasound neuromodulation experiments.

Keywords: noninvasive neuromodulation; ultrasound.

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Brain*
Cochlea*