Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

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 ...

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A suburban man is making music again with help from some high-tech surgery. Music instructor Matt O'Brien's transformation has been remarkable. O'Brien struggles to do what he loves ...

Rick Kuntz was under the effects of anesthesia, oblivious that a carefully choreographed operation would result in a hole being drilled into his skull. The red, digital numbers on a clock protruding ...

For years, Denise Holtzinger struggled with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s Disease. Simple tasks like walking or using her hands became nearly impossible as tremors took over her body. But ...

London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

A new experimental helmet might eliminate the need for surgery in deep brain stimulation therapies The helmet sends targeted beams of ultrasound to specific regions of the brain The ultrasound beams ...