Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a treatment for various neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It involves surgically implanting an electrode into your ...

A new study led by Bucknell University Professor Karlo Malaga, biomedical engineering, has identified key insights into optimizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease patients.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, primarily characterized by motor dysfunction. Its pathological hallmark is the abnormal aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn ...

Over 50 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain, a third of whom have had their entire lives stopped because of it.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The adaptive deep brain stimulation technology is the first of its kind to address symptoms of Parkinson’s ...

A pilot for nearly three decades, Greg Smith never thought lower back pain would lead to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. “Hard to walk. Hard to stand up. Very uncomfortable,” Greg says. He went to ...

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 ...

In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation ...

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has won FDA approval for a deep brain stimulation system for Parkinson’s disease. The approval is for BrainSense Adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS)and BrainSense Electrode ...

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 ...