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, ...

According to the Center of Diseases and Prevention Control, the number of senior adults battling Alzheimer's is expected to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deciding if and when to pursue deep brain stimulation (DBS) can be overwhelming for people with Parkinson's disease. While ...

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) provides lasting benefits for patients with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), with sustained improvements in movement and quality of ...

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