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MARCH 29, 2024

Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Appears to Decrease Pain


Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News

Recent study findings indicate that low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) is effective at modulating patients’ perception of pain in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), a critical brain area for pain and autonomic processing.

“Before this paper and its companion paper in PAIN [2024 Feb 1. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003171] targeting the insula, it was not possible to nonsurgically investigate how deeper