Comment Papers (Score 4, Informative) 27
They're calling it Focused Ultra Sound which means using an MRI to guide stimulation of millimeter-scale areas of the brain to disrupt electrical activity there.
So many ads and press releases on a web search but I did find this bibliography:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/...
It's weird how these hospitals don't link papers in the news releases as is common in the West.
Curiously there was an article yesterday about Ultrasound brain imaging so it might be possible to combine the two modalities. This seems like an "obvious to a practitioner" approach though noise cancelation will be needed.
https://alephneuro.com/blog/ul...
We might actually be capable of realizing that headband where you walk into Sick Bay and tell Dr. Crusher you have Holodeck addiction and she slaps it on your forehead for twenty minutes and tells you to lay down and then come back if it recurs.