If deep brain stimulation (DBS) can help people with Parkinson's disease walk and speak again, could it help people with Alzheimer's disease, too? It's a natural question, and one that researchers ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the Medtronic Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation system ...

A former military and commercial pilot is now the first Parkinson’s disease patient in the D.C. area to be using an “adaptive ...

Parkinson’s disease disrupts lives by slowly robbing people of their ability to move, speak, and function with ease. It's the ...

A research paper by scientists at Peking University Third Hospital presented a study on the regulatory mechanisms of the ECS in the substantia nigra ...

USC have discovered a new brain mechanism that allows humans to rapidly switch between motor actions. This process does not ...

A music conductor with Parkinson's was fitted with a ‘pacemaker for the brain’ to control his tremors so he can lead his orchestra once again.

New USC research offers an unseen insight into how the brain shifts gears. The researchers discovered that our innate ability to make quick changes in motor function are the result of a unique brain ...

This group of patients was of interest to the USC Viterbi research team because their treatment involves deep brain stimulation of the subcortical regions that control motor function—a prime ...

PSCAN, which enables minimally invasive, wide-field, high-resolution imaging of the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in living mice. This technique allows detailed investigation of NTS activity and ...