An Ohio music conductor battling Parkinson's has found relief with adaptive deep brain stimulation, nearly eliminating ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy is currently offered to patients ... Appropriate patient selection Proper electrode positioning in the operating room Proper postoperative programming to achieve ...

"Adaptive deep brain stimulation will help revolutionize ... clinicians can conduct an accurate initial programming more quickly compared with traditional electrode selection, Medtronic said.

Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, combines neurology, neurosurgery and electrical engineering, and casual conversations in the operating room between doctors and their wide-awake patients are just ...

That's when Dornte first learned about a different kind of surgery called deep brain stimulation, or DBS, that uses carefully placed electrical pulses to prevent seizures or interrupt them when ...

Deep brain stimulators (DBS) may be affected by electromagnetic interference (EMI). Little research has been conducted regarding this phenomenon, although supportive background information and a ...

This discovery led to a new treatment: deep brain stimulation. It involved a pacemaker delivering electrical pulses via electrodes implanted in specific spots in the brain. This treatment has been ...

People with Parkinson's disease who have a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain spend an extra four-plus hours a day free of tremors and involuntary movements than they do on medication ...