A groundbreaking international clinical trial has been testing an implanted adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) device as a treatment therapy for Parkinson’s.

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) provides lasting benefits for patients with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), with sustained improvements in movement and quality of ...

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, ...

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

A pilot for nearly three decades, Greg Smith never thought lower back pain would lead to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. “Hard to walk. Hard to stand up. Very uncomfortable,” Greg says. He went to ...

Northwell Health is conducting a clinical trial to address treatment-resistant depression using similar technology used to treat neurological diseases like Parkinson’s in an effort to seek options for ...

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be addressed by the right intervention even in severe, refractory cases. These cases, characterized by involuntary muscle movements, are most often caused by antipsychotics ...

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