Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating neurological condition that affects movement, causing tremors, stiffness and freezing episodes that can leave patients unable to move. Abou ...

Parkinson’s disease is a serious brain disorder that slowly affects movement over time. Millions of people around the world ...

A novel, noninvasive brain stimulation approach—known as transcranial temporal interference stimulation (TIs)—may offer a new ...

There is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain stimulator that could benefit patients with the motor condition. On Feb 24, ...

Medicare covers deep brain stimulation (DBS) for eligible people diagnosed with essential tremors or idiopathic Parkinson’s disease to help reduce tremors and improve daily activities. To qualify for ...

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) provides lasting benefits for patients with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), with sustained improvements in movement and quality of ...

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

Neuroscientists at University of Iowa Health Care have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive brain stimulation can alter the activity of a critical deep brain region involved in emotion and ...

Medicare covers specific types of deep brain stimulation (DBS), such as thalamic VIM DBS for essential tremor and Parkinson’s tremor, as well as STN and GPi DBS for Parkinson’s disease. To be eligible ...