A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness—a finding that might ...

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

A research paper by scientists at Peking University Third Hospital presented a study on the regulatory mechanisms of the ECS in the substantia nigra ...

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

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

Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences have developed a new imaging method, D-PSCAN, which enables ...

Parkinson’s disease disrupts lives by slowly robbing people of their ability to move, speak, and function with ease. It's the ...

Scientists in France report success in using focused ultrasound as a non-invasive therapy to treat severe depression.

Rick Schena, of Alexandria, Virginia, and his doctor at MedStar Health, in McLean, have begun using the latest technology — adaptive deep brain stimulation — in his treatment for Parkinson’s ...

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 ...