Imagine walking across the street and suddenly falling down. Your body convulses, you lose consciousness. This is how it feels to have a seizure. The ability to predict seizures may allow researchers ...

The device senses brain activity in real time and tailors electrical pulses accordingly, like a pacemaker for the brain that only fires when needed. Physicians are in short supply. They are costly. Is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON -- Call them brain pacemakers, tiny implants that hold promise for fighting tough psychiatric diseases — if scientists ...

What is Deep Brain Stimulation for depression? Discover how the TRANSCEND trial at UT Southwestern is using "brain pacemakers" to treat treatment-resistant depression by targeting neural communication ...

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.

First report of effective deep brain stimulation for stuttering therapy – Pilot project by Frankfurt University Medicine and Münster University Hospital FRANKFURT. While stuttering was believed to ...

Researchers are investigating the mechanisms and identifying new areas of the brain that can benefit patients when stimulated. Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over ...

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.

WASHINGTON-- Call them brain pacemakers, tiny implants that hold promise for fighting tough psychiatric diseases - if scientists can figure out just where in all that gray matter to put them. Deep ...