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Brain and nervesClinical medicineDementia and Alzheimer'sAddictionNeurological conditions

Ali Rezai explains how focused ultrasound is being used to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer's disease and drug addiction.

American neurosurgeon Ali Rezai is pioneering ways to try to help people with drug addiction and with Alzheimer's disease. One experiment focuses beams of ultrasound on the brain. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch full episodes: cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more “60 Minutes” from “60 Minutes: Overtime”: cbsn.ws/1KG3sdr Follow “60 Minutes” on Instagram: bit.ly/23Xv8Ry Like “60 Minutes” on Facebook: on.fb.me/1Xb1Dao Follow “60 Minutes” on Twitter: bit.ly/1KxUsqX Subscribe to our newsletter: cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Download the CBS News app: cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Try Paramount+ free: bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com

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What people say. Recommended as a fascinating look at using focused ultrasound to treat addiction and halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

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Have you seen the video on hn a couple of weeks ago about the scientist using ultrasound to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s and to treat addiction? Most fascinating video I’ve seen in a long time. Edit: If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend checking it out link to this video
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TDCS is a form of neurostimulation that can be used to treat addiction, among other things. You can’t outrun a bad diet, and if you look at food as an addiction, then you can treat it that way. There’s even an ultrasound brain surgery they can do for addiction. link to this video
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…ehaviors, versus solely digestive system effects. Interestingly, this works by crossing the blood brain barrier, so the next question is: can you speed up the effects by temporarily opening that barrier using ultrasound such is done for Alzheimer's treatment 1? Also, what does an fMRI look like when someone is being treated with a GLP-1 2? 1 link to this video 2 link…
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On “Functional ultrasound through the skull”

What if it's a really skinny ice pick? Apparently if you're really good, you can actually find the part of the brain that has to do with addiction and zap it. They use ultrasound after getting it to work with a metal probe. link to this video
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