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: ...

Neuropsychology researchers at LMU have discovered a rhythm in the midbrain that could serve as a biophysiological signature ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicare covers specific types of deep brain stimulation (DBS), such as thalamic VIM DBS for essential tremor and Parkinson’s tremor, as well as STN and GPi DBS for Parkinson’s disease. To be eligible ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found a new way to more precisely detect and monitor brain cell activity during deep brain stimulation, a common treatment for movement disorders such as Parkinson's ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and involved in consciousness and motor activity—reveals the thalamus may play ...

Users report that seconds stretch into eternity, sounds turn into color, and you very self begins dissolving. And now, after ...