Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called “DeepFocus,” uses ...

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 ...

Medtronic has won FDA approval for a device that can help with therapy for those suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. The Dublin-based company’s BrainSense Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) and ...

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of 'pacemaker' – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an 'open ...

If a patient's device is turned off by an EMI, the impact may be more than an inconvenience for those who are unaware of this potential phenomenon. Specifically, turning off DBS results in the return ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The adaptive deep brain stimulation technology is the first of its kind to address symptoms of Parkinson’s ...

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 ...

Deep brain stimulation appears to help some people with depression Half of a small group of people with treatment-resistant depression found significant relief from brain implants that provide ...