Nature Communications (May 2021)

Intrinsic functional neuron-type selectivity of transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation

  • Kai Yu,
  • Xiaodan Niu,
  • Esther Krook-Magnuson,
  • Bin He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22743-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique with high spatial specificity. The authors show that excitatory and inhibitory neurons respond differently to tFUS, suggesting the possibility of preferentially targeting specific neuron types via noninvasive tFUS.