A multi-center clinical trial is now enrolling patients to test whether surgically implanted electrodes delivering continuous electrical pulses to a specific brain region can relieve depression that ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a Medtronic deep brain stimulation treatment to treat obsessive compulsive disorder – the first deep brain stimulation treatment ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label ...

Half of a small group of people with treatment-resistant depression found significant relief from brain implants that provide electrical pulses A third of the patients wound up virtually ...

On World Parkinson’s Day 2026, here's how deep brain stimulation is improving mobility, reducing symptoms, and enhancing quality of life for advanced Parkinson’s patients.

(NAPSI)—It all started about 15 years ago with a strange vibration in her left leg. “I thought it was nothing,” recalls ...

UAB researchers are involved in a new clinical trial to explore a promising treatment for adults suffering from major depressive disorder, especially for those who have not been successfully treated ...

In India, Parkinson's disease patients are often referred too late for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), missing critical benefits. Experts highlight delayed referrals, underutilization, high costs, and ...

Deep-brain stimulation of a novel brain region can be safely performed in patients with Parkinson's disease dementia, and although it may not improve cognition, it does appear to have benefits on ...

While Parkinson's has traditionally been associated with older age, specialists say a growing number of younger patients are ...

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