Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing deep ...

Deep brain stimulation is linked to reduced risks for mortality and institutionalization, and lower healthcare costs in ...

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

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 ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers compare the safety and feasibility of an adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) system to a conventional DBS system for Parkinson's disease ...

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 ...

Preliminary 6-month results from the first-in-human trial of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subgenual singulate cortex (SCC) for chronic low back pain, suggested that the procedure reduces pain, ...

Overcoming a bad habit, such as nail biting, or procrastination, is difficult, but achievable. Combating an addiction to heroin or opioids, however, may seem impossible. Death rates among people with ...

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 ...

Experts say millions of people across the globe suffer from essential tremor, a progressive movement disorder affecting ...