Over the past 14 years, I’ve often fantasized about some scan revealing the locus of my mood disorder. Now, we were as close as we’d likely ever get ...

A new brain imaging study provides evidence that deep brain stimulation of a specific brain region called the ventral anterior limb of the internal capsule (vALIC) may change how key emotional and ...

A woman living with Parkinson’s disease played her clarinet while undergoing brain stimulation, offering surgeons immediate, audible evidence of the procedure’s success. Denise Bacon, 65, from ...

“Images and videos of musicians playing instruments like a clarinet during deep brain stimulation remind us of the ...

At lecture, Helen Mayberg presented findings showing electrical impulses in the brain can induce long-term benefits in patients.

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 ...

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

DUBLIN, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced that BrainSense™ Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS) – the world's first ...

Doctors noticed an instant improvement in Parkinson’s disease patient Denise Bacon’s mobility during the procedure, known as Deep Brain Stimulation.