(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with ...

PARKINSON’S disease patients described restored autonomy after STN-DBS, while still fearing symptom recurrence in daily life ...

When most people hear the words “brain surgery,” they recoil. I did too.

For the first time in years, Debra Flynn's hand was still. "The tremor has stopped," the Parkinson's patient told her doctor as electrodes implanted in her brain were activated in mid-November, just ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

For years, Denise Holtzinger struggled with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s Disease. Simple tasks like walking or using her hands became nearly impossible as tremors took over her body. But ...

Several weeks after NBC News reached out to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield about the denial, the insurer changed its policy to ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical ...

When the living and breathing body of a 71-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient was recently lying in a sterile operating theater at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, his head was in Thailand.

London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

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 ...