A tiny implanted wire bundle can relay scalp-delivered electricity deep into the brain, enabling precise stimulation.

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

A beam of sound, tuned to a frequency that passes harmlessly through the skull, can now quiet one of the brain’s most deeply ...

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of 'pacemaker' – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an 'open ...

7NEWS cameras were inside the clinic to witness the moment Walter Grkovic became the first patient in Australia to receive ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Chronic pain is any pain that lasts longer than three months. It can also be inconsistent, a constant ache, or sudden flares. The main problem in solving it is that there are ...

Neuroscientists at University of Iowa Health Care have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive brain stimulation can alter the activity of a critical deep brain region involved in emotion and ...

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 ...

Keith Krehbiel has broken more ribs than he can count — from bike crashes to falls during pickleball matches. Another time, he climbed up the stairwell in his home and blacked out just as he reached ...