The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...

Parkinson's disease is no longer viewed as a faraway neurological ailment buried in textbooks. More than 10 million people ...

A Cleveland Clinic spinout developing a brain stimulation device for stroke recovery has raised $10.3 million from investors.

Deep brain stimulation enhances memory, may ease Alzheimer's symptoms. Feb. 8, 2012— -- A new study suggests that driving electricity deep into the brain can boost memory, shedding light on a ...

When Tom Montgomery first started getting tremors in 2008, he thought they were because he’d had a stressful couple of weeks ...

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 ...

For people living with Parkinson’s disease, there comes a point when medication doesn’t control the tremors the way it used to. And that’s when something called deep brain stimulation becomes an ...

A Vancouver General Hospital neurosurgeon is working on new research that could help Parkinson’s patients suffering from ...

Long-term outcome research indicates that deep brain stimulation holds promise for the treatment of intractable major /topics/Depression" class="cnnInlineTopic">depression and obsessive-compulsive ...

Abby had to resign from her job and suspend her college career because the tics and OCD became too severe. Now she's going ...

Manipal Hospital Sarjapur Road has announced the launch of a dedicated Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Clinic, offering advanced ...