Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is often used in refractory cases of Parkinson’s disease as well as in a number of other movement disorders. Electrodes are placed in deep nuclei of the brain, and ...

A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, Parkinson’s can cause disruptive symptoms such as ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his ...

Gayle McCormick tried medications at first, and she realized it was not for her. She decided to have Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, DBS is where a surgeon will ...

When 64-year-old MBK Nair first noticed a subtle tremor in his right hand in 2020, he brushed it off as fatigue or muscle weakness, assuming that could be a sig ...

Epworth Geelong has become the first hospital outside Melbourne to offer deep brain stimulation, giving Western Victorians with Parkinson's disease ...

After 45 years of marriage, Mark Geddes and his wife Jill were on the verge of sleeping in separate rooms due to the ...

Parkinson’s disease often starts on one side of the body, and new research shows this asymmetry influences how non-motor symptoms progress.

Dressed in a hospital gown 55-year-old Rohit Kumar (name changed) remembers the ice-cold, sterile, brightly lit Magnetic ...