Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label ...

Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus has long been one of the most dramatic interventions in neurology: ...

The INTREPID study group, a team of 49 researchers from 30 academic and medical institutions, reports on sustained five-year benefits from subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's ...

The study's 100 participants will all be implanted with Abbott's device at the start. Half will have their therapy turned on, while the other half will serve as a control group for one year. (Pogonici ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to pioneers of "optogenetics," a technology that enables the ...

For decades, clinicians have used electrical pulses to regulate abnormal brain activity in people with Parkinson’s disease. For some of the millions of people worldwide afflicted with Parkinson’s, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep brain stimulation therapy has helped two patients with spinal cord injuries regain some movement. Photo by Adobe ...

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke. Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in ...

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 ...