July 11, 2006 — A small study suggests that in Parkinson's patients who already have a stable response to subthalmic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS), "tweaking" of the electrical ...

In patients with Parkinson disease (PD) who underwent deep brain stimulation, dementia prevalence and incidence were not found to be higher than those in the general PD population, according to study ...

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) continues to be effective for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) more than 15 years after device implantation, with significant improvement in ...

Postural disturbances contribute to much of the burden of advanced PD... Moro and colleagues have found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), a brain structure that ...

Baylor Medicine sits at the forefront in the medical and surgical treatment of essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, obsessive compulsive disorder, and Tourette syndrome using deep brain ...

Though some 55,000 people have received deep-brain stimulation for conditions ranging from Parkinson disease to obsessive-compulsive disorder, there is still plenty of room to improve the process.