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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

"What makes this approach revolutionary is that it's the first time we've been able to directly modulate deep ... either brain surgery or indirect approaches through cortical stimulation," said ...