Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...

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An Ohio music conductor battling Parkinson's has found relief with adaptive deep brain stimulation, nearly eliminating ...

And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate different parts of the brain, a new Yale-led study indicates that multiple senses all stimulate a critical region deep in the ...

"What makes this approach revolutionary is that it's the first time we've been able to directly modulate deep brain activity without invasive procedures or medications." In the double-blind study ...

A key barrier to effective PD treatment is the slow, inconsistent patient recruitment process for clinical trials, especially ...

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic ...

Focusing magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy on a newly identified target in the brain could improve ...

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An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...