deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation helps severe OCD, but pioneer advises caution
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When obsessive-compulsive disorder is of crippling severity and drugs and behavior therapy can’t help, there has been for just over a year a thread — or rather a wire — of hope. By inserting a thin elec…
Pioneering treatment could help people with severe depression
Pioneering neurosurgical treatment, a world first in Bristol, which very accurately targets brain networks involved in depression, could help people who suffer with severe and intractable depression.
The research led by Dr Andrea Malizia, Consult…
Beyond improving Parkinson’s symptoms, does deep brain stimulation stall their progression?
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 17, 2011) — Parkinson’s disease symptoms begin subtly and worsen as damage to certain brain cells continues. But an electrical stimulation device implanted deep in the brain and programmed remotely, along with medications, may pr…
Researchers reach consensus on use of deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s
Since the late 1990s, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proven to be a lifeline for some patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease, a cruel neurological disorder that can cause lack of control over movement, poor balance and coordination, and rigid…