{"id":84696,"date":"2018-11-14T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound-to-treat-alzheimers"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:22:51","slug":"historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound-to-treat-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound-to-treat-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Historic breakthrough: WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience team first to use ultrasound to treat Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound-to-treat-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORGANTOWN \u2014 World-leading brain experts at West Virginia University\u2019s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are celebrating the historic breakthrough Alzheimer patients around the global have been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Alzheimer\u2019s, there\u2019s not that many treatments available despite hundreds of clinical trials over the past two decades and billions of dollars spent,\u201d said Dr. Ali Rezai, a neurosurgeon at WVU who led the team of investigators that successfully performed a phase II trial using focused ultrasound to treat a patient with early stage Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The WVU team tested the innovative treatment in collaboration with INSIGHTEC, an Israeli medical technology company. Earlier this year, INSIGHTEC was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin a phase II clinical trial of the procedure and selected the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute as the first site in the United States for the trial.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/statejournal\/news\/historic-breakthrough-wvu-rockefeller-neuroscience-team-first-to-use-ultrasound\/article_b9951ba2-19ba-54ba-8e1c-0096fb4824bc.html\">https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/statejournal\/news\/historic-breakthrou...824bc.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORGANTOWN \u2014 World-leading brain experts at West Virginia University\u2019s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are celebrating the historic breakthrough Alzheimer patients around the global have been waiting for. \u201cFor Alzheimer\u2019s, there\u2019s not that many treatments available despite hundreds of clinical trials over the past two decades and billions of dollars spent,\u201d said Dr. Ali Rezai, a neurosurgeon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}