Deep brain stimulation enhances memory, may ease Alzheimer's symptoms. Feb. 8, 2012— -- A new study suggests that driving electricity deep into the brain can boost memory, shedding light on a ...

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...

A Cleveland Clinic spinout developing a brain stimulation device for stroke recovery has raised $10.3 million from investors.

When treatments such as medication and therapy aren’t able to relieve the symptoms of depression or another mental health condition, there are other options available. A psychiatrist might suggest ...

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 ...

Long-term outcome research indicates that deep brain stimulation holds promise for the treatment of intractable major /topics/Depression" class="cnnInlineTopic">depression and obsessive-compulsive ...

For people living with Parkinson’s disease, there comes a point when medication doesn’t control the tremors the way it used to. And that’s when something called deep brain stimulation becomes an ...

When Tom Montgomery first started getting tremors in 2008, he thought they were because he’d had a stressful couple of weeks ...

This study is the first of its kind in developing an off-label indication for RLS. Other conditions we’re considering ...

Parkinson's disease is no longer viewed as a faraway neurological ailment buried in textbooks. More than 10 million people ...