Can TMS reach the hippocampus? A new study demonstrates that personalized noninvasive brain stimulation can modulate deep ...

A light pulse of electricity to the brain helped monkeys shake off a schizophrenia-like pattern of rigid thinking. They ...

What is Deep Brain Stimulation for depression? Discover how the TRANSCEND trial at UT Southwestern is using "brain pacemakers" to treat treatment-resistant depression by targeting neural communication ...

UAB researchers are involved in a new clinical trial to explore a promising treatment for adults suffering from major depressive disorder, especially for those who have not been successfully treated ...

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of 'pacemaker' – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an 'open ...

Instead, her physician asked a question that stopped her cold: What about Parkinson’s disease? “What?” Suzanne remembers ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...

In 2003, Medtronic first received a humanitarian green light from the FDA to offer its deep brain stimulation implants to treat the symptoms of dystonia—the painful movement disorder that can cause ...

Faculty from the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiologyand the Department of Neurosurgery collaborated on the study, titled “Treatment ...