Deep brain stimulation is an emerging treatment for severe depression, but exactly how it alters the brain to relieve ...

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-label ...

Advances in neuromodulation are challenging conventional approaches and expanding non‑drug treatment options for ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have created a detailed map of the pulvinar, a deep brain region that could help doctors more ...

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and treatment-resistant symptoms of depression have a terrible personal and societal cost. They can devastate lives, careers, and families. Some ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

Half of a small group of people with treatment-resistant depression found significant relief from brain implants that provide electrical pulses A third of the patients wound up virtually ...

A therapy developed for Parkinson’s disease is helping patients turn back time on the severity and progression of their symptoms. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a low-risk therapy that implants ...

A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain cancer, has been identified by UCL clinician-scientists, raising the ...

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the most disabling of all psychiatric illnesses. Despite available pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments about 10% of patients remain ...