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.

Prefrontal cortex biopsies taken for research purposes during deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures appeared to be safe, new research has suggested. Investigators found no significant differences in ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved Medtronic’s Asleep Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for individuals diagnosed with ...

The U.S. FDA recently granted Medtronic plc approval for its deep brain stimulation (DBS) system to be used to treat Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor while a patient is asleep, under general ...

PHOENIX — A Barrow Neurological Institute surgeon has reached a milestone that hasn’t been achieved by any other professional in the country. Dr. Francisco Ponce recently performed his 1,000th deep ...

Rick Kuntz was under the effects of anesthesia, oblivious that a carefully choreographed operation would result in a hole being drilled into his skull. The red, digital numbers on a clock protruding ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found a new way to more precisely detect and monitor brain cell activity during deep brain stimulation, a common treatment for movement disorders such as Parkinson's ...

* First targeted DBS surgery for epilepsy in Karnataka performed at Fortis Hospital * Personalized brain mapping helped reduce seizures and improve quality of life * DBS is a //minimally invasive, ...

But long-term mortality -- which her group considered a proxy for seizure control -- became substantially worse for patients ...