Parkinson's Disease is a movement disorder that affects the nervous system. Deep Brain Stimulation surgery, or DBS, is helping those living with the condition.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — April is Parkinson’s awareness month. Patients and doctors are using this month, and every month, to advocate for deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure. They say the ...

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.

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 ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) improves many of the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) and is a life-alerting surgery for many patients. Penn Medicine's Gordon Baltuch, MD, a professor of ...

A University of Alabama at Birmingham pediatric neurosurgeon has performed the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure for epilepsy at Children’s of Alabama (COA), offering a new treatment option ...

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 ...

Researchers performed the world’s first robotic Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery on a pediatric patient with a rare genetic movement disorder. The patient’s motor function improved immediately ...

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 ...

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 ...