An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) provides lasting benefits for patients with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), with sustained improvements in movement and quality of ...

A team of experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has become the first in the United States to perform a deep brain stimulation (DBS) implantation procedure as part of a multi-site, ...

A multi-center clinical trial is now enrolling patients to test whether surgically implanted electrodes delivering continuous electrical pulses to a specific brain region can relieve depression that ...

Joey Sheikh is out of his wheelchair and can walk, talk and play basketball in ways he hasn't for years. It comes after he ...