Neuroscience & Mental Health · Recorded milestone
Focused ultrasound brain therapy
Recorded year2016
Ultrasound beams focused through the skull treat tremor without surgery and can briefly open the blood-brain barrier.
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- Medical ultrasoundRecorded · 1958enables
- CT scannerRecorded · 1971requires
- MicroprocessorRecorded · 1971requires
- MRI scannerRecorded · 1977enables
Led to
- Incisionless sound-wave surgeryRecorded · 2023enables
- Ultrasound mood headsetForecast · ~2032enables
- Ultrasound brain interfacesForecast · ~2034enables
- Presymptomatic Alzheimer’s progression delayedForecast · ~2035enables
- Ultrasound-opened brain drug deliveryForecast · ~2035enables
- Reversible metabolic suppression in humansForecast · ~2040enables
- Depression treatable for almost allForecast · ~2046enables
- Surgery without going underForecast · ~2046enables
- Chronic pain switched offForecast · ~2056enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.