Over 50 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain, a third of which have had their entire lives stopped because of it ...

One in six people worldwide suffers from neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, ...

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is being used in a new study funded by the NIH at University of California San Francisco to ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a standard of care in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, such as dystonia and ...

Researchers develop TRFS, a non-invasive radio frequency technique that can suppress or excite deep-brain activity to treat depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s.

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

While new technology is making it more powerful, it remains underutilised due to low awareness levels. Increasing education ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin ...

For people living with Parkinson’s disease, deciding whether to have brain surgery can be one of the most difficult choices ...

A study has found that precise application of radio waves can change the activity of brain cells in ways that could counter ...