A mother’s mind appears restored: might ultrasound be a cure for Alzheimer’s?
After treatment for a separate condition, a Chinese neurologist noticed improvements in cognition
Neurologist Sun Bomin’s mother led him to believe that Alzheimer’s disease might not be incurable after all.
On January 21, Sun released a short video on China’s Yitiao.tv platform and an article detailing what he said was the world’s first effective treatment of Alzheimer’s disease using the high-intensity FUS procedure.
His mother, who appeared in the video but was not named, is aged in her nineties and had been suffering from the progressive brain disorder for around eight years.
According to Sun, the disease had erased memories, stripped her of any sense of time and left her in a state of passive silence – unresponsive even to the death of a close family member.
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However, he said, in 2024, during a high-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) procedure to treat another condition, her cognition was unexpectedly sparked and she began to recognise family members, do calculations, respond appropriately and express emotional needs.
He said she even showed she could start counting backwards from 100 by sevens – a standard diagnostic tool used in Alzheimer’s and dementia assessments.