1.7. Research Gap
neurocognitive disorders, depression, MDD, depressive disorder
CURB
Ultrasound for the brain is a revolutionary therapeutic treatment approach in patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms. As TPS is a relatively new NIBS technology, there have been only a few studies regarding its use; further, these studies were all conducted on older adults with mild neurocognitive disorders [To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first pilot, randomized, controlled trial (RCT) conducted nationwide to use TPS to treat adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) in Hong Kong. Health policymakers and researchers are working to ameliorate hard-to-formulate effective mental health interventions in order to curb the depression epidemic brought on by the pandemic [