A new study led by Bucknell University Professor Karlo Malaga, biomedical engineering, has identified key insights into optimizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease patients.

Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes tremors, body stiffness and other difficulties with movement and balance, which progressively worsen over time. While there is ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a treatment for various neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It involves surgically implanting an electrode into your ...

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 ...

A pilot for nearly three decades, Greg Smith never thought lower back pain would lead to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. “Hard to walk. Hard to stand up. Very uncomfortable,” Greg says. He went to ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...

Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.

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, ...