Recent discovery of neuronal stimulation by low-intensity, focused ultrasound waves has ignited high hope and research effort to develop a noninvasive way to assess and control brain activity with millimeter spatial resolution. But how does the phenomenon work? Scientists now propose the first concrete biophysical model to explain, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the discovery and to guide the methodological development.
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