WVU in the News: Can Ultrasound Help Treat Alzheimer’s?
Imagine strapping on a high-tech helmet, lying on an MRI table and, after microbubbles bounce in your blood vessels and ultrasound waves are beamed at your brain, walking away with fewer symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
“We need to really explore and be bold in terms of the way we’re looking at Alzheimer’s, because the disease is not going away, it’s increasing,” says neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, M.D., executive chair of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University and a leading researcher on the topic.