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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For thousands living with movement disorders, simple activities like holding a cup of tea, buttoning a shirt, or simply ...

Deep brain stimulation helped a Valley man whose Parkinson's tremors had become debilitating. He was forced to stop his passion for sculpting when his tremors worsened. After a successful surgery, ...

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 ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a new way to improve walking for patients with Parkinson’s Disease using deep brain stimulation and artificial intelligence. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) ...

AIIMS Delhi held India's first workshop on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s. Experts trained 200+ clinicians in advanced surgery and programming to improve patient care and debunk myths.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center neurosurgeons offer deep brain stimulation, a brain stimulator device, to treat movement disorders. Learn more.

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 ...

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.