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 most people hear the words “brain surgery,” they recoil. I did too.

A novel, noninvasive brain stimulation approach—known as transcranial temporal interference stimulation (TIs)—may offer a new ...

Deciding if and when to pursue deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be overwhelming for people with Parkinson's disease. While DBS is one of the most effective interventions for movement symptoms, it's ...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be addressed by the right intervention even in severe, refractory cases. These cases, characterized by involuntary muscle movements, are most often caused by antipsychotics ...

For the first time in years, Debra Flynn's hand was still. "The tremor has stopped," the Parkinson's patient told her doctor as electrodes implanted in her brain were activated in mid-November, just ...

7NEWS cameras were inside the clinic to witness the moment Walter Grkovic became the first patient in Australia to receive adaptive deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease. “It’s great, ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...