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ArticleIEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology2023

Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Stroke Recovery: A Novel Deep Brain Stimulation Approach for Neurorehabilitation?

Mahmut Martin Yuksel, Shiqi Sun, Charles Latchoumane, Jocelyne Bloch, Gregoire Courtine, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

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Article in IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mahmut Martin YukselDefitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, Neuro-X Institute and Brain Mind InstituteÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Geneva 1201 Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8821-717X
Shiqi SunNeuro-X Institute and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life SciencesSwiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne 1015 Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7257-7996
Charles LatchoumaneNeuro-X Institute and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life SciencesSwiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne 1015 Switzerland.
Jocelyne BlochNeuro-X Institute and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life SciencesSwiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne 1015 Switzerland.
Gregoire CourtineDepartment of Clinical NeuroscienceLausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) Lausanne 1015 Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5744-4142
Estelle Emeline RaffinDefitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, Neuro-X Institute and Brain Mind InstituteÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Geneva 1201 Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-5251
Friedhelm Christoph HummelDefitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, Neuro-X Institute and Brain Mind InstituteÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Geneva 1202 Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4746-4633
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHHôpital Orthopédique de la Suisse Romande · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke as the leading cause of adult long-term disability and has a significant impact on patients, society and socio-economics. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) approaches such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) are considered as potential therapeutic options to enhance functional reorganization and augment the effects of neurorehabilitation. However, non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation paradigms are limited by their depth focality trade-off function that does not allow to target deep key brain structures critically important for recovery processes. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is an emerging approach for non-invasive deep brain neuromodulation. Using non-ionizing, ultrasonic waves with millimeter-accuracy spatial resolution, excellent steering capacity and long penetration depth, TUS has the potential to serve as a novel non-invasive deep brain stimulation method to establish unprecedented neuromodulation and novel neurorehabilitation protocols. The purpose of the present review is to provide an overview on the current knowledge about the neuromodulatory effects of TUS while discussing the potential of TUS in the field of stroke recovery, with respect to existing NIBS methods. We will address and discuss critically crucial open questions and remaining challenges that need to be addressed before establishing TUS as a new clinical neurorehabilitation approach for motor stroke recovery.

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neuromodulationNIBSnon-invasive deep brain stimulationStroketranscranial ultrasound stimulation

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PMID38196977
PMCPMC10776095
OpenAlexW4362653085

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