Parkinson's Disease is a movement disorder that affects the nervous system. Deep Brain Stimulation surgery, or DBS, is helping those living with the condition.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) improves many of the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) and is a life-alerting surgery for many patients. Penn Medicine's Gordon Baltuch, MD, a professor of ...

SPMC performs Mindanao's first DBS surgery for Lubag and the first SRS procedure in a PH government hospital using the Elekta ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterised by episodes of abnormal electrical activity in the brain which cause recurrent seizures. The seizures can be focal or generalised. Surgery may be ...

Tremor and dystonia are symptoms arising from a number of different neurological diseases, including essential tremor, multiple sclerosis and primary generalised dystonia. Tremor and dystonia ...