A multi-center clinical trial is now enrolling patients to test whether surgically implanted electrodes delivering continuous ...

Alzheimer’s disease currently impacts 7 million Americans aged 65 and older, and it’s the 6th leading cause of death in the U ...

One in six people worldwide suffers from neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

Learn how deep brain stimulation – like a pacemaker for the brain – is helping patients with neurologic conditions like Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and in some cases, epilepsy. Functional ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a standard of care in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, such as dystonia and ...

In the sixth episode of The Deep End, we’ll look to the future for Jon and his family and for DBS research. The research is pushing ahead, with a clinical trial of DBS for treatment-resistant ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical ...

There is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain stimulator that could benefit patients with the motor condition. On Feb 24, ...

A new decision-making aid may help people seeking treatment for Parkinson disease weigh the risks and benefits of deep brain stimulation.

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...