Science news articles about 'brain pacemaker'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires....

... Association, are on the right track. Their new deep brain pacemaker is to help Parkinson's patients on a large ... drive the diseased 5-Hz rhythm in the brain. Headed by Prof. Volker Sturm, neurosurgeons ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, according to the biggest test yet of deep brain ...

... and tested for two years after deep brain stimulation, which involves a surgically implanted brain pacemaker that sends electrical impulses to certain parts of the brain. The study found that the ...

... Used to treat Parkinson's disease, depression and movement disorders, DBS involves surgical implantation of a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses into the brain. In the past, researchers ...

... stimulation, doctors specifically target the impaired function of certain areas of the brain with an electric brain pacemaker. For the purpose of this study, they implanted electrodes in what is known ...