Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep brain stimulation involves implanting electrodes within certain areas of your brain. These electrodes produce electrical impulses that regulate abnormal impulses. Or the electrical impulses can affect certain cells and chemicals within the brain.
The amount of stimulation in deep brain stimulation is controlled by a pacemaker-like device placed under the skin in your upper chest. A wire that travels under your skin connects this device to the electrodes in your brain.
Deep brain stimulation is approved to treat a number of conditions, such as:
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy
- Essential tremor
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Parkinson's disease
Videos
How it works
Neuroprosthetics and deep brain stimulation: Two big neuroscience breakthroughs | Susan Hockfield
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Indications & Limitations - Ausaf Bari, MD, PhD
For Parkinson’s & Tremors
The Future of Parkinson’s Treatment: Deep Brain Stimulation
Treatment Resistant Depression
For Epilepsy
Articles/Studies
Scientists discover a hidden brain rhythm that could improve Parkinson’s treatment. Scientists have pinpointed a brain network—and its distinctive electrical rhythm—that appears to drive the benefits of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease. The discovery could lead to more precise, personalized stimulation settings and better results for patients.
Lightning carries potential danger to people with deep brain stimulators