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

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

Over 50 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain, a third of whom have had their entire lives stopped because of it. Chronic pain is any pain that lasts longer than three months. It can also ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Brain implant gets FDA clearance for first wireless depression treatment trial, offering battery-free stimulation in ...