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WVU in the News: Alzheimer’s drugs might get into the brain faster with new ultrasound tool, study shows

A potential advancement in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease was announced by researchers at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. A first in-human study, featured in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that focused ultrasound in combination with anti-amyloid-beta monoclonal antibody treatment can accelerate the clearance of amyloid-beta plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

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