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

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studied the impact of unilateral DBS on verbal fluency in Parkinson’s patients. Findings showed that electrode implants in the left hemisphere of ...

Management of Essential Tremor prioritizes functional improvement over symptom elimination, and protocols begin with propranolol or primidone.

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

Participants in a deep brain stimulation trial for drug addiction say the implants triggered compulsive behavior that upended ...

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 ...