In patients with Parkinson disease (PD) who underwent deep brain stimulation, dementia prevalence and incidence were not found to be higher than those in the general PD population, according to study ...

July 11, 2006 — A small study suggests that in Parkinson's patients who already have a stable response to subthalmic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS), "tweaking" of the electrical ...

Postural disturbances contribute to much of the burden of advanced PD... Moro and colleagues have found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), a brain structure that ...

Though some 55,000 people have received deep-brain stimulation for conditions ranging from Parkinson disease to obsessive-compulsive disorder, there is still plenty of room to improve the process.

Twelve years on, Jeff Ryan still recalls the collective gasp in the operating room the day he got the electrodes implanted. He himself was in somewhat of a state of shock as he held the cup. “All of ...