After imaging is completed, the patient is brought to the operating room (OR). While the patient is in asemisitting position, the patient's head is shaved, thoroughly cleansed, and prepped for surgery ...

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 patients.

On Monday, the FDA approved Medtronic plc’s (NYSE:MDT) BrainSense Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) and BrainSense Electrode Identifier (EI) for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Deep brain ...

European approval introduces the world's only closed-loop DBS system with real-time, self-adjusting brain stimulation for people with Parkinson's disease For 30 years, people with Parkinson's disease ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could ...

Catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) enables high-resolution intraoperative visualization of deep brain structures, offering a powerful complement to MRI for ...

We don’t think of ourselves as anything like electrical devices, but there are actually some similarities. Really? The nervous system communicates through electricity. Wait—doesn’t the body run on ...

Emily Hollenbeck struggled with recurring depression, comparing it to a gravitational force that made even moving difficult. In pursuit of relief, she opted for an experimental treatment referred to ...