About the Authors

Costas D. Arvanitis

cda@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret S. Livingstone

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Natalia Vykhodtseva

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathan McDannold

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

A pending patent (#21379) on the method presented (US Provisional application # 61/548,274 filed on October 18, 2011.) The focused ultrasound system was supplied by InSightec. There are no further products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDA NM MSL. Performed the experiments: CDA NM MSL. Analyzed the data: CDA NM NV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NV. Wrote the paper: CDA NM NV MSL.