Aiming ultrasound at the brain raises hope of new treatments

Jay Sanguinetti in Tucson, U of A, is doing some really awesome stuff with Ultrasound and the brain. Anyone interested should take a look at his research,

https://www.jaysanguinetti.com/transcranial-ultrasound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEjmwaIPZk&feature=emb_logo

Ted talk - A Technoboost for Meditation

The guy who invented lobotomy won the nobel prize. Hopefully these researchers are less susceptible to the hype train.

Of course as basic research this is great, but articles like this that suggest that everything's value is the clinic and superhuman immortality is the problem with science. Understanding is the reward.

It’s a welcome change from the rest of medicine that the brain seems to somewhat positively react to all sorts of random interventions: magnetic fields, direct current, LSD, and now, apparently, ultrasound.

While these experiments seem to hint at very specific mechanisms at work, maybe there’s also a general principle of (mild) change or challenge being supportive in helping a an errand brain’s active return-to-the-mean.

Also please nobody tell DARPA about this. Agreed?