Study finds deep-brain stimulation shifts people out of negative ‘cycles’ of mental illness A Q-and-A with Alik Widge, a lead author of the University of Minnesota report. by Andy Steiner 01 ...

A surprising (but welcome) side effect of a therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder may pave the way for a new approach to treating type 2 diabetes — and offer new insights into the links ...

People with "young" brains -- brains aging more slowly than their actual age -- are much less likely to die or develop ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure that entails the implantation of electrodes in specific brain regions, to subsequently stimulate these regions via high frequency electric ...

A pilot study of deep brain stimulation in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 04 / 170425153818.htm ...

New findings temper the hope that deep brain stimulation, which has shown success in treating Parkinson’s disease and some psychiatric disorders, might also soon be useful in Alzheimer’s ...

Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital in Massachusetts. After treatment with targeted deep brain stimulation, she hopes to walk out soon and, for the ...

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 ...

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers ...

New data reporting the long-term effects of deep brain stimulation on early-stage Parkinson’s patients has found the treatment significantly slows the progression of the disease. A large Phase 3 ...