fus Forward

With limited supply and massive demand for opportunity in neurotech, it's not always clear how to fit in. This week we're joined by neurotechnology investor, community builder, and managing partner at Dragonfly 44 Capital, Michael Brotherton. Michaels taken the long road in, from bench-side scientist, to Michelin star chef (not Michelin), and we guarantee this episode will inspire. Join us this week to hear about a range of topics from psychedelics regulation to new biomarkers and community building with a lot of life lessons along the way.

In a field moving this fast, it's important to remember that everything we take for granted was someone's lifetime of dedication. In our journey to collect their untold stories we catch up with one of the fields heroes, Jean-Francois Aubry, the Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research, the Scientific Director of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Center of Excellence at Physics for Medicine Paris, and co-founder of SonoMind. This episode is a wealth of historical context for acoustic array and lens design, through-skull transmit-receive, first steps in safely modulating the brain, scientific mentorship, and a forward looking sentiment for the mass treatment of depression. It is an absolute must listen for all those in the space.

The skull cap gang has assembled for this riveting episode with Taylor Webb and Sam Clinard from the University of Utah. We talk about their development of a new MR hydrophone method, biomarkers for estimating dose, and the legacy of MR skull acoustic properties.

This week, the gang heads out west with Pengfei Song, Associate Professor at Duke University. They get into functional ultrasound brain imaging, the implications of vascular microbubbles, shear wave neuromodulation possibilities, and next generation brain computer interfaces.

This week we join Dr. Samuel Pichardo to discuss pushing acoustic simulations to the limit with plans for BabelBrain 1.0, how essential tremor is n his crosshairs, and how electrical fields can steer the focus of a single element transducer.

Not the first, and definitely not the last time the gang discusses the growing prevalence of self experimentation as FUS gets wind in its sails. Listen in on thoughts around barrier to entry, a viral twitter post, chasing ghosts, and vagus nerve modulation.

Noah Philip, Professor at Brown University joins the pack to discuss what's been going on inside one of the most secretive efforts in focused ultrasound neuromodulation. This episode covers new findings his work with amygdala stimulation in PTSD, the honors of working with veterans, how old stim habits die hard, and some hot takes on wellness devices gone clinical.

Charles and Keith discuss the recent serious adverse event and what it means for the field

This week Keith and Charles go 0 to 10 on all things ultrasound neuromodulation, rating how well we know a number of topics ranging from mechanisms to through-skull transmit.