For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now ...

Deep brain stimulation can significantly reduce depressive symptoms in some individuals. Knowing what to expect before and after the procedure may help you determine if it’s right for you. Deep brain ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

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, ...

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 ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center neurosurgeons offer deep brain stimulation, a brain stimulator device, to treat movement disorders. Learn more.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortly after obtaining a greenlight in Europe and after more than 10 years in development, Medtronic has now received the FDA’s approval for its adaptive, closed-loop neurostimulation approach to ...