DEEP brain stimulation may improve quality of life in treatment-refractory OCD, but social and independence challenges often ...

A study by UNIGE, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, has significantly improved the accuracy of a non-invasive brain ...

When most people hear the words “brain surgery,” they recoil. I did too.

PARKINSON’S disease patients described restored autonomy after STN-DBS, while still fearing symptom recurrence in daily life ...

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 ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found a new way to more precisely detect and monitor brain cell activity during deep brain stimulation, a common treatment for movement disorders such as Parkinson's ...

A patient with Parkinson’s disease has played the clarinet while undergoing a Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) operation, allowing her surgeons to monitor her results instantly, King's College hospital in ...