After years of severe Tourette, Abigail Bailey saw her tics plummet following deep brain stimulation surgery at Allegheny ...
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing deep ...
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a new form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that adjusts in real time as a person walks, helping to improve gait and reduce falls in people with Parkinson’s ...
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered the first direct evidence that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can remodel white matter pathways in the brain and alter ...
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered the first direct evidence that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can remodel white matter pathways in the brain and alter ...
Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...
A new international study points to a specific brain network as the core driver of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists found that this network becomes overly connected, disrupting not just movement but ...
This information conduit is crucial to how your body functions. So why are so many people trying to shock it? By Simar Bajaj Running along either side of your neck is a pair of marvelous fibers that ...
People often describe anesthesia as something that puts a patient in a "deep sleep." An anesthesiologist enters the operating room, and part of their mission is to ensure that the patient is ...
Deep brain stimulation has transformed the treatment of certain neurological and psychiatric disorders. By delivering electrical pulses directly to specific brain circuits, implanted electrodes can ...
Abigail Bailey of Hookstown, Beaver County, has spent much of her 24 years trapped. Diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at age 3, she grew up battling a body that moved without her permission. Relentless ...