Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder

A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...

03.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 50    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 4

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

05.09.2025 02:59 — 👍 232    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 6

🎯 Meet 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐓𝐔𝐒: a fast, open-source tool to pick where to place a transducer for transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) on an individual head – before you run heavy simulations.

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Code & instructions: plan-tus.org

01.09.2025 18:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

17.06.2025 11:22 — 👍 9857    🔁 2768    💬 224    📌 98

PhD Position IMPETUS_2025.pdf Shared with Dropbox

Open PhD position starting in Oct 2025 at the Neuroimaging Center Mainz, using transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) with AI-driven phased-array and crossbeam technology for deep brain neuromodulation and fMRI/EEG for proof of neural target engagement. shorturl.bz/tdB

17.06.2025 09:56 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

PhD_position_TRR379_B02.pdf Shared with Dropbox

Open PhD position in the Collaborative Research Center on "Neuropsychobiology of Aggression". The position is located at the Neuroimaging Center (NIC) in Mainz and involves working with Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) in combination with EEG. Check out bit.ly/43qrDIh

21.05.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

[Highlight of the Month] Murphy et al. A practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation from the IFCN-endorsed ITRUSST consortium. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;171:192-226. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

02.03.2025 13:09 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Pulsed inhibition of corticospinal excitability by the thalamocortical sleep spindle Thalamocortical sleep spindles, i.e., oscillatory bursts at ∼12-15 Hz of waxing and waning amplitude, are a hallmark feature of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and believed to play a key role in m...

Our new paper is out in @braistimjournal.bsky.social

"Pulsed inhibition of corticospinal excitability by the thalamocortical sleep spindle"

With an amazing team @tobergmann.bsky.social , @ Ulf Ziemann @ Christoph Zrenner @ Prince Okyere & @ Milad Amini

www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

28.02.2025 07:47 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

[Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation: IFCN-endorsed gulidelines] Murphy et al.: "Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) is a novel technique for the non-invasive neuromodulation of superficial and deep brain regions with high spatial precision.
Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

30.01.2025 13:09 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The ITRUSST Practical Guide on Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) for neuromodulation is finally out, endorsed by the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN). This is quite the “opus magnum” with 23 beautiful educational figures.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

31.01.2025 20:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0