For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

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 ...

What Is Deep Brain Stimulation? The procedure involves implanting electrodes within areas of the brain for people with movement conditions. "The electrodes produce electrical impulses that affect ...

Discover why deep brain stimulation may be safer than expected and how large scale data could change surgical decision making ...

“To the best of our team's knowledge, this project represents the first time an Alabama medical center has examined deep brain stimulation for depression,” said Matthew Macaluso, D.O., director of the ...

London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

For years, Denise Holtzinger struggled with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s Disease. Simple tasks like walking or using her hands became nearly impossible as tremors took over her body. But ...

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 ...

Rick Kuntz was under the effects of anesthesia, oblivious that a carefully choreographed operation would result in a hole being drilled into his skull. The red, digital numbers on a clock protruding ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

When the living and breathing body of a 71-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient was recently lying in a sterile operating theater at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, his head was in Thailand.