A light pulse of electricity to the brain helped monkeys shake off a schizophrenia-like pattern of rigid thinking. They became better at recognizing change and adjusting their behavior. Researchers ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes tremors, body stiffness and other difficulties with ...

Instead, her physician asked a question that stopped her cold: What about Parkinson’s disease? “What?” Suzanne remembers ...

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 ...

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.

Neuroscientists at University of Iowa Health Care have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive brain stimulation can ...

Researchers showed that personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can noninvasively modulate hippocampal activity ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a standard of care in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, such as dystonia and ...

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, ...

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