A Miami woman with Parkinson's disease is regaining control of her hands and daily life after undergoing deep brain ...
London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...
"When the procedure came, I like, hopped out of bed," one patient said.
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 ...
An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...
Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...
No, this is not an episode from House, MD. This is very much a real scenario – and one, that might question your definition of ‘miraculous’. In a remarkable blend of medical advances and music, a ...