A brain biopsy is a medical procedure that involves removing a tissue sample from the brain. Doctors use it for diagnostic purposes. Doctors order brain biopsies to help them diagnose suspected brain ...

A brain biopsy is used to help diagnose brain lesions. Samples may be taken from the gray matter, white matter, or other sites. Brain biopsies can be done using a minimally invasive or open approach.

In the first in-human clinical trial, scientists used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to ...

Antiamyloid antibodies have been used to reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. We applied focused ultrasound with each of six monthly aducanumab infusions to ...