PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — April is Parkinson’s awareness month. Patients and doctors are using this month, and every month, to advocate for deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure. They say the ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a widely used surgical treatment for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and obsessive–compulsive disorder. The procedure involves ...

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) improves many of the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) and is a life-alerting surgery for many patients. Penn Medicine's Gordon Baltuch, MD, a professor of ...

University of Oklahoma Health is using innovative procedures and technology to improve the lives of patients with movement disorders and other neurological conditions, according to a press release. OU ...

PENSACOLA — Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola is now offering the most advanced technology for deep brain stimulation (DBS), a neurosurgical procedure to improve tremors and other symptoms of Parkinson ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a treatment for various neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It involves surgically implanting an electrode into your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Offering asleep or awake DBS aims to provide PD patients choice, impetus for choosing DBS therapy sooner.

Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus was shown to remain effective in treating motor complications of people with Parkinson disease 15 years after initial surgery. Deep brain stimulation ...

image: Tissue slices of the left and right hemispheres showing two electrode insertions to (a) an off- target portion of the brain’s right hemisphere (using CARS), and (b) to the subthalamic nucleus ...

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 ...