Deep brain stimulation enhances memory, may ease Alzheimer's symptoms. Feb. 8, 2012— -- A new study suggests that driving electricity deep into the brain can boost memory, shedding light on a ...

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 ...

A new study led by Bucknell University Professor Karlo Malaga, biomedical engineering, has identified key insights into optimizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease patients.

Specifically-targeted deep brain stimulation improves symptoms in patients with severe Tourette's, a study reports in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, often ...

If deep brain stimulation (DBS) can help people with Parkinson’s disease walk and speak again, could it help people with Alzheimer’s disease, too? It’s a natural question, and one that researchers are ...

The FDA approved Boston Scientific Corp.’s Vercise Deep Brain Stimulation System to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Boston Scientific’s system works by stimulating a region of the brain ...

A search for Parkinson's in the hiss of our brain's static has revealed measures of motor control that could one day fine-tune precise forms of stimulation therapy. Led by the Max Planck Institute for ...

Persons with Parkinson’s disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.

Northwell Health is conducting a clinical trial to address treatment-resistant depression using similar technology used to treat neurological diseases like Parkinson’s in an effort to seek options for ...

A helmet that looks more like sports gear than surgical equipment is quietly rewriting what is possible in brain medicine. By steering pulses of sound through the skull, the device can reach deep ...

A Tel Aviv University study suggests noninvasive brain stimulation may reduce intrusive memories in people with PTSD.