March 14, 2003 — Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) significantly enhances positive mood and emotional memory, according to a report in ...

Motor function without medication (measured by the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale) improved from a mean of 42.8 to 21.1 at year 1 (51%) and 27.6 at year 5 (36%). HealthDay News — Subthalamic ...

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.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure that entails the implantation of electrodes in specific brain regions, to subsequently stimulate these regions via high frequency electric ...

Researchers have identified a new neural circuit in the brain which produces a strong sense of discomfort when activated. The discovery also allows them to show for the first time that the subthalamic ...

Researchers investigating how exactly the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are actively involved in ...

Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.

THURSDAY, Oct. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective long-term therapy for Parkinson disease (PD), according to a study published online Sept. 15 in ...