Latest 'Scientific American' includes Rezai article

Ali Rezai, MD, director of the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, recaps a promising new experimental therapy to combat Alzheimer's disease in the latest edition of "Scientific American."

The article, titled "Battling Alzheimer's through Better Access to the Brain," discusses magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a technology-based therapy first tried at WVU in October.

Wrote Rezai: "Finding a more effective drug is still imperative. It’s also essential to try novel approaches and leverage new technological innovations. Last week at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University, we began testing a promising experimental therapy – one that involves no drugs and no surgery.

"We have high hopes that the therapy, which uses a technique called magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), will one day help treat Alzheimer’s. We also think the technology will help the delivery of antibodies and medications to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, the biological seal that limits potential effective treatments from reaching their target tissue."

To read the full "Scientific American" article, click here.