Nonsurgical treatment shows promise for targeted seizure control
November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 11 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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Nonsurgical treatment shows promise for targeted seizure control
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Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a nonsurgical way to quiet a seizure-relevant brain circuit in an animal model. The team used low-intensity focused ultrasound to briefly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in the hippocampus, delivered an engineered gene therapy only to that region . . .
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Nonsurgical treatment shows promise for targeted seizure control
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Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a nonsurgical way to quiet a seizure-relevant brain circuit in an animal model. The team used low-intensity focused ultrasound to briefly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in the hippocampus, delivered an engineered gene therapy only to that region . . .
