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, ...

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 ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

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 ...

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

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

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