"Electrical stimulation nonselectively triggers firing in all kinds of nerve cells close to the electrode tip, including those in nearby but irrelevant tracts. It can't be used to pinpoint the circuit ...

Discover how groundbreaking insights into thalamic connectivity are reshaping treatment approaches for essential tremor, paving the way for personalized and more effective DBS therapies. Study: ...

If deep brain stimulation (DBS) can help people with Parkinson’s disease walk and speak again, could it help people with Alzheimer’s disease, too? It’s a natural question, and one that researchers are ...

Tiny electronic chips that can be threaded into the brain through a needle instead of a scalpel are moving from speculative ...

I am watching a quiet revolution in brain medicine take shape: tiny injectable chips that slip into the bloodstream, steer ...

A pilot for nearly three decades, Greg Smith never thought lower back pain would lead to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. “Hard to walk. Hard to stand up. Very uncomfortable,” Greg says. He went to ...

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced ...

Slow movement, tremor, and stiff muscles are all typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. They are due to loss of the neurotransmitter dopamine, known as the “feel-good” hormone. Treatment for ...

Brain stimulation might sound like some Frankensteinian demonstration from a Victorian science fair. But in reality, it is a contemporary technique making a huge impact in neuroscience by addressing a ...

When most people consider treatment for psychiatric problems, they usually consider medications and/or psychotherapy. However, emerging neuromodulation approaches using transcranial magnetic ...