Researchers at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), led by professors Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have achieved a major milestone in the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI). By ...

For more than twenty years deep brain stimulation (DBS) is being used in patients with movement disorders, predominantly in refractory Parkinson's disease (PD) followed by dystonia and essential ...

Medtronic Percept™ DBS therapy is the only sensing-enabled † DBS system available, allowing a physician to use data from a patient’s brain activity to personalize their treatment. Andy says Medtronic ...

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.

With Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) emerging as a trusted therapy for Parkinson’s patients who struggle with worsening symptoms, AIIMS Delhi organised a first-of-its-kind workshop in India in the ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2008;4(8):424-426. Several factors limit the capacity of the clinical results to date to rule out DBS as a neuroprotective therapy. First, continued functional decline does not ...

New closed-loop system self-adjusts DBS therapy to individual brain activity in real time; the largest commercial launch of brain-computer interface technology ever There is no cure for debilitating ...

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an effective and safe treatment for motor symptoms in patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. In addition to motor symptoms such as tremors, ...

What is deep brain stimulation? Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is a concept that dates back 70 years, but has only been in clinical use since the 1990s. The DBS device, or implant, is much like a ...

A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single ...