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Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addiction
New experimental treatments using ultrasound energy to target the brain are being tested to help people with Alzheimer's and those battling drug addiction. The pioneering neurosurgeon behind the technology spoke with 60 Minutes.
A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his brain the size of a pencil point. When hit with ultrasound energy, the bubbles vibrate and pry open the blood-brain barrier, temporarily allowing the therapeutic drugs to quickly get inside the brain. Rezai thought to use a similar implant in the part of the brain responsible for behavioral regulation, anxiety and cravings as a way to target addiction.
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