Adaptive deep brain stimulation provides remarkable relief for 70-year-old conductor Rand Laycock, whose Parkinson's tremors impacted his musical career until a breakthrough in treatment.

A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., was set to connect two Parkinson's patients to a new type of deep brain stimulation device, or "brain pacemaker," developed ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is already being used to treat physical symptoms—such as tremors—in people living with Parkinson's. But, until now, its potential to help relieve non-movement ...

A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, Parkinson’s can cause disruptive symptoms such as ...

Refining an "always on" device. Doctors have offered deep brain stimulation to Parkinson’s patients since 2002.But until now, devices have only provided continuous stimulation—not the dynamic ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation has virtually eliminated the most debilitating motor symptoms for some Parkinson’s patients and considerably improved their lives. At 40, Keith Krehbiel was a ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease.. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

Epworth Geelong has become the first hospital outside Melbourne to offer deep brain stimulation, giving Western Victorians with Parkinson's disease ...

An alternative to more invasive surgical procedures like deep brain stimulation (DBS) MRgFUS intervention is a non-surgical ...

After 45 years of marriage, Mark Geddes and his wife Jill were on the verge of sleeping in separate rooms due to the ...