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 ...

Medicare covers deep brain stimulation (DBS) for eligible people diagnosed with essential tremors or idiopathic Parkinson’s disease to help reduce tremors and improve daily activities. To qualify for ...

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) provides lasting benefits for patients with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), with sustained improvements in movement and quality of ...

A coin-sized device with no battery, no wires, and no deep surgical penetration into the brain just cleared its biggest ...

A Miami woman with Parkinson's disease is regaining control of her hands and daily life after undergoing deep brain ...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be addressed by the right intervention even in severe, refractory cases. These cases, characterized by involuntary muscle movements, are most often caused by antipsychotics ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The potential for deep brain stimulation rests in the ability for accurate location of biomarkers. Personalized ...

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 ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...

In another new UAB study, 15 minutes of stimulation before a 45-minute session with a physical therapist made lasting ...