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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, Denise Holtzinger struggled with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s Disease. Simple tasks like walking or using her hands became nearly impossible as tremors took over her body. But ...

Rick Kuntz was under the effects of anesthesia, oblivious that a carefully choreographed operation would result in a hole being drilled into his skull. The red, digital numbers on a clock protruding ...

When Tom Montgomery first started getting tremors in 2008, he thought they were because he’d had a stressful couple of weeks ...

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

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 ...

Find out how stainless steel neural probes reduce brain damage risks while enabling safer, deeper, and more reliable neural ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

When the living and breathing body of a 71-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient was recently lying in a sterile operating theater at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, his head was in Thailand.