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 ...

Abbott Neuromodulation's Rebecca Wilkins discusses the Infinity DBS system's design and offers advice for other device developers.

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

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

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

"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 ...

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

While a neurologist and neurosurgeon monitor the brain waves throughout the surgery, the monitoring typically is limited to a ...

Okazaki, Japan – The communication between the brain and ... the NTS's deep location has historically posed challenges for observation in living animals. In a study recently published in Cell ...

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 ...