Over 50 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain, a third of which have had their entire lives stopped because of it.

One in six people worldwide suffers from neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes tremors, body stiffness and other difficulties with ...

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 ...

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...

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 ...

Al-Khadra General Hospital in Tripoli has announced the success of six consecutive DBS implant surgeries for patients suffering from severe movement disorders, during three-day medical operations. The ...