Deep brain stimulation is an emerging treatment for severe depression, but exactly how it alters the brain to relieve ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used for more than three decades to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Today, more than 200,000 patients worldwide have been implanted with these ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

A former bank executive who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in her early 40s has been given a new lease on life by miracle surgery that has almost totally reversed her symptoms.

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-label ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

A new study unveils an adaptive deep brain stimulation system that adjusts in real time to prevent Parkinson's falls.

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 ...

(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Desperate for solutions, some brave patients are now ...

Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...