An Ohio music conductor battling Parkinson's has found relief with adaptive deep brain stimulation, nearly eliminating ...

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

A new implantable device regulated by a person's brain activity could provide ‘round-the-clock’ personalized care for those suffering from the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The treatment gives patients targeted electrical impulses, much like a pacemaker for the brain. A growing body of recent research is promising, with more underway — although two large studies ...

The self-adjusting device is the first of its kind, and for Scott Stanslaski, a senior distinguished engineer at Medtronic, ...

“If you think about pacemaker for the heart, this is like pacemaker for the brain,” Jacobson explained. During DBS surgery, electrodes are inserted into a targeted area of the brain and a ...

The electrodes receive impulses from a battery-powered stimulator—a pacemaker for the brain—implanted under the skin of his chest. “I probably would not be speaking clearly … I wouldn’t ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

Researchers have created a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice that does not require open surgery to implant.

A ground-breaking procedure at the Royal Victoria Infirmary saw surgeons become the first in the UK to implant a new "pacemaker for the brain" to treat epilepsy. A team, led by Tyneside ...

Minimally invasive Tiny pacemaker is so small that it can be injected into the body via a syringe. (Courtesy: Northwestern University) The world’s smallest pacemaker to date is smaller than a single ...