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ReviewBrain sciences2025

Using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound to Treat Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Review of Current Evidence.

Ao Du, Manli Huang, Zheng Wang, Hetong Zhou, Huilong Duan, Shaohua Hu, Yinfei Zheng

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In one paragraph

Review in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ao DuCollege of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China.ORCID 0009-0000-3119-3122
Manli HuangDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.
Zheng WangDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7375-3503
Hetong ZhouDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.
Huilong DuanCollege of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China.
Shaohua HuDepartment of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0570-670X
Yinfei ZhengCollege of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3702-4199

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFB3204300National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFC2506200National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFC2506203Zhejiang Provincial Key Research and Development Program of China 2022C01002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

affective disordersanxietydepressionlow intensity focused ultrasoundmood effecttranscranial focused ultrasound stimulation

Identifiers

PMID41154223
PMCPMC12562471

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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