Essential tremor, one of the most common movement disorders, has long suffered from limited treatment options. Now, ...

The largest study to date of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy for essential tremor identified a target area within the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) that could ...

Customizable waveforms in a wearable stimulation device were associated with higher responder rates than standard settings in ...

A young woman spent two decades fighting a body she couldn’t control. A Pittsburgh neurosurgeon and a medical device the size ...

Propranolol and Primidone demonstrate efficacy in up to 70% of patients as first-line agents. MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) results in approximately 56% tremor reduction at 4 years. Deep Brain ...

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 ...

People with Parkinson's disease who have a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain spend an extra four-plus hours a day free of tremors and involuntary movements than they do on medication, ...