A helmet that looks more like sports gear than surgical equipment is quietly rewriting what is possible in brain medicine. By ...

"Electrical stimulation nonselectively triggers firing in all kinds of nerve cells close to the electrode tip, including those in nearby but irrelevant tracts. It can't be used to pinpoint the circuit ...

“To the best of our team's knowledge, this project represents the first time an Alabama medical center has examined deep brain stimulation for depression,” said Matthew Macaluso, D.O., director of the ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

Brain stimulation might sound like some Frankensteinian demonstration from a Victorian science fair. But in reality, it is a contemporary technique making a huge impact in neuroscience by addressing a ...

Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.