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Elsa Fouragnan

@efouragnan.bsky.social
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(she/her) UKRI FLF - Professor in Neuroscience. Started doing robotic/AI before it was cool, moved on to Neuroscience and now obsessed with Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation.

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Elsa Fouragnan @efouragnan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.
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Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications
This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...
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Elsa Fouragnan @efouragnan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
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Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
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Elsa Fouragnan @efouragnan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So thrilled and humbled to be part of a £6.5M project funded by the @aria-research.bsky.social. Together with NHS Trust and Forest Neurotech, we’re trialing a whole-brain interface using ultrasound which could transform mental health! 🔊🧠 @bricplymouth.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
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