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Scientists can tune brain signals up or down to treat disorders

For decades, neurology treated the brain like a black box, nudging it with drugs and hoping symptoms would ease. Now ...
Time

Parkinson’s Patients Have a New Way to Manage Their Symptoms

There is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain stimulator that could benefit patients with the motor condition. On Feb 24, ...

How Our Own Cells Could Implant The Next Generation Of Nonsurgical Brain Microchips

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...
Medscape

Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Yields Lasting Benefits

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 ...
UC San Francisco

From Chronic Pain to Parkinson’s, 4 Ways DBS is Changing Care

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...
Healthline

Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression

Deep brain stimulation can significantly reduce depressive symptoms in some individuals. Knowing what to expect before and after the procedure may help you determine if it’s right for you. Deep brain ...
Healthline

What to Know About Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...
FierceBiotech

FDA approves Medtronic’s adaptive deep-brain stimulator for Parkinson’s disease

Shortly after obtaining a greenlight in Europe and after more than 10 years in development, Medtronic has now received the FDA’s approval for its adaptive, closed-loop neurostimulation approach to ...
The New York Times

Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...
News Medical

Deep brain stimulation shows promise in reducing severe stuttering

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...
Kaleido Scope

Deep brain stimulation: Relief for movement disorders

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 ...