A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has developed a data-driven method for optimizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings that significantly improved walking ...

Boston Scientific (($BSX)) announced an update on their ongoing clinical study. Study Overview: The Vercise DBS Registry, ...

Deep brain stimulation has been proven to be an effective treatment for reducing the movement-related symptoms of Parkinson’s disease—and Boston Scientific is aiming to up those efficacy levels even ...

Before his deep brain stimulation procedure, Parkinson’s disease patient Frank Maver could not drive his car or get out of a chair without assistance. After the procedure he says, “my life has ...

For Abbott, good things come in tiny packages. The devicemaker’s Liberta RC implant—the smallest rechargeable, remote programming-equipped deep brain stimulation system not just in Abbott’s portfolio, ...

An update to the traditional deep brain stimulation device enables adaptive pulses of electricity that help to lessen the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and inform future research University of ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in their ability to walk can be dramatic. “Parkinson’s gait,” as it is often called, can include changes in step length and asymmetry between legs. This ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be helpful in severe cases of tardive dyskinesia that doesn’t respond to other treatments. Tardive dyskinesia (TD) causes involuntary movements of the tongue, neck, ...

Dr. Paul Koch discusses deep brain stimulation research and the treatment of disease. This is an in-depth interview with Dr. Paul Koch, assistant professor with the Virginia Commonwealth University ...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be addressed by the right intervention even in severe, refractory cases. These cases, characterized by involuntary muscle movements, are most often caused by antipsychotics ...