Now we may know why specific brain cells die in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
his just in: The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of focused ultrasound for tremor associated with Parkinson's disease. This follows clinical trials led by our Jeff Elias, MD.
Our Bimal Desai, PhD, has discovered an electrical switch within a certain type of immune cell that could let us treat inflammatory diseases including inflammation of the brain, as seen in Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s, for the first time. What he found was that this switch, called an ion channel,…
A few years ago, our Dr. Jeff Elias conducted the first test of focused ultrasound for the treatment of the most common movement disorder, a condition called essential tremor. A trial participant went into an MRI machine with a hand that shook so violently he couldn't feed himself cereal. When…
