Deep brain stimulation has been around for a few decades, but the technology has recently advanced in leaps and bounds.

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a computer interpreting brain activity and deciding whether to adjust the ...

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic ...

Two small electrodes — thin metal wires — implanted deep inside ... her unable to work or even to sleep, with her brain “screaming at me that this is too hard, you can’t do this.” ...

Gayle McCormick tried medications at first, and she realized it was not for her. She decided to have Deep Brain Stimulation ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a ...

Deep brain stimulation helped a Valley man whose Parkinson's tremors ... After just a night in the hospital, the electrical ...

Fenoy said patients who participate in the trial do ... work he began in Texas, using more imaging to foster a more detailed study. The clinical trial is FDA-approved, but the deep brain ...

Seizure warning signs like slurred words and a feeling of "not really being there" hounded him, often at work, where Dornte ... kind of surgery called deep brain stimulation, or DBS, that uses ...