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Matthias Michel

Matthias Michel

Associate Professor, MIT Department of Philosophy and Linguistics

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Transcranial focused ultrasound is a promising direction for consciousness research—a new tool with low risk and high reward.

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Noninvasive deep brain stimulation advances

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Co-author of the consciousness research roadmap

Scientists studying the deep brain faced these limitations: transcranial magnetic stimulation reaches only 2-4 centimeters below the skull, functional MRI shows correlation not causation, and deep brain stimulation requires opening the skull. Transcranial focused ultrasound sends acoustic waves through intact bone to reach regions as small as a few millimeters—deeper and more precisely than any previous noninvasive method.

Updated May 27