Adaptive deep brain stimulation provides remarkable relief for 70-year-old conductor Rand Laycock, whose Parkinson's tremors impacted his musical career until a breakthrough in treatment.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is often used in refractory cases of Parkinson’s disease as well as in a number of other movement disorders. Electrodes are placed in deep nuclei of the brain, and ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and ...

As the symphony orchestra plays, Rand Laycock stands in front and center, carefully guiding the musicians. “I’m going to be ...

Local 4 sat down with the first patient to receive brain surgery without any incisions and the surgeon who brought this ...

Kristen Scheitler, M.D., a neurologic surgery resident and Ph.D. candidate, was recently awarded the Neurosurgeon-Scientist ...

A Parkinson’s support group at the Edwardsville YMCA has been providing resources, activities, and social connection for ...

Brain Navi Biotechnology’s stereotaxic guiding surgical device, NaoTrac, has gained 510(k) clearance from the FDA.

A disorder known as pediatric dystonia made Tamryn Hendon barely able to move, but a deep brain stimulation treatment has ...

Brain Navi Biotechnology, a medical robotics company founded in 2015 in Taiwan by surgeon and serial entrepreneur Jerry Chen, ...