---
title: "Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Using Ultrasound"
description: "A new way of treating Alzheimer's disease with ultrasound has been demonstrated in mice, clearing the amyloid plaques in 75% of the animals."
date: "2015-03-18"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Radu Serban"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/techie1986"
url: "https://futurism.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-using-ultrasound"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Medical"
tags:
  - "medical"
---

# Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Using Ultrasound

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- The new treatment developed by QBI is able to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier – a layer that normally protects our brains from bacteria and other potential threats, but also blocks drugs from entering and therefore prohibits traditional medicine.
- By using ultrasound, microglial cells (which are basically a type of support cell for removing waste) were stimulated to engulf and clear toxic protein clumps, fully restoring memory functions in 75% of the mice. This was achieved without damaging brain tissue.
- The next step will be to scale the treatment to higher animal models (sheep), followed by human clinical trials beginning in 2017.