ReviewFrontiers in neurology2019
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound (tFUS) and Transcranial Unfocused Ultrasound (tUS) Neuromodulation: From Theoretical Principles to Stimulation Practices.
Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Focused and unfocused transcranial ultrasound stimulation in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Pooled it
- AI Video Analysis in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review of the Most Accurate Computer Vision Tools for Diagnosis, Symptom Monitoring, and Therapy Management.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Transcranial ultrasound stimulation parameters for neurological diseases: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Transcranial ultrasound stimulation in neuromodulation: a bibliometric analysis from 2004 to 2024.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Brain stimulation targets for chronic pain: Insights from meta-analysis, functional connectivity and literature review.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Low Intensity Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation on Neuromodulation in Animals and Humans: An Updated Systematic Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Brain-Computer Interfaces: The Dawn of a New Era in Disease Treatment.Exploration (Beijing, China) · 2026Review
- Medial prefrontal cortex-targeted low-intensity focused ultrasound alleviates migraine-related allodynia and affective symptoms via modulating glutamate/GABA balance in mice.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Article
- Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Techniques and Their Efficacy in Treating Cognition and Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease-A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Navigating transcranial mr guided focused ultrasound complexities with machine learning: Overcoming obstacles and expanding therapeutic horizons.Neurosurgical review · 2026Review
- Treatment of alcohol use disorder via magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound ablation surgery.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Article
- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) as neurosurgical approaches in psychiatry: A systematic review of current clinical evidence.Brain & spine · 2026Review
- Ultrasound neuromodulation in brain disorders: from mechanotransduction mechanisms to clinical translation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Exploring Brain Dynamics Within the Approach-Avoidance Bias.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- A Frequency-Dependent and Nonlinear, Time-Explicit Five-Layer Human Head Numerical Model for Realistic Estimation of Focused Acoustic Transmission Through the Human Skull for Noninvasive High-Intensity and High-Frequency Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation: An Application to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Design and Structure of a Non-Coaxial Multi-Focal Composite Fresnel Acoustic Lens for Synergistic Ultrasound Stimulation of Multiple Brain Regions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Computational sensitivity evaluation of ultrasound neuromodulation resolution to brain tissue sound speed with robust beamforming.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perirhinal cortex abnormalities impair hippocampal plasticity and learning inScience advances · 2025Article
- Advances in Neurological Pain Management: Bridging Scientific Innovations and Clinical Practice.Cureus · 2025Review
- A Wearable, Steerable, Transcranial Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound System.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Article
23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Transcranial focused ultrasound is an emerging technique for non-invasive neurostimulation. Compared to magnetic or electric non-invasive brain stimulation, this technique has a higher spatial resolution and can reach deep structures. In addition, both animal and human studies suggest that, potentially, different sites of the central and peripheral nervous system can be targeted by this technique. Depending on stimulation parameters, transcranial focused ultrasound is able to determine a wide spectrum of effects, ranging from suppression or facilitation of neural activity to tissue ablation. The aim is to review the state of the art of the human transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation literature, including the theoretical principles which underlie the explanation of the bioeffects on neural tissues, and showing the stimulation techniques and parameters used and their outcomes in terms of clinical, neurophysiological or neuroimaging results and safety.
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