A former military and commercial pilot is now the first Parkinson’s disease patient in the D.C. area to be using an “adaptive ...

An Ohio music conductor battling Parkinson's has found relief with adaptive deep brain stimulation, nearly eliminating ...

The self-adjusting device is the first of its kind, and for Scott Stanslaski, a senior distinguished engineer at Medtronic, ...

The electrodes receive impulses from a battery-powered stimulator—a pacemaker for the brain—implanted under the skin of his chest. “I probably would not be speaking clearly … I wouldn’t ...

Researchers have created a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice that does not require open surgery to implant.

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

Minimally invasive Tiny pacemaker is so small that it can be injected into the body via a syringe. (Courtesy: Northwestern University) The world’s smallest pacemaker to date is smaller than a single ...

A ground-breaking procedure at the Royal Victoria Infirmary saw surgeons become the first in the UK to implant a new "pacemaker for the brain" to treat epilepsy. A team, led by Tyneside ...

CHICAGO — A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who ...

Michal Gostkowski, DO, a neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, introduced Laycock to the alternative option of deep brain stimulation (DBS), which was described as a "pacemaker for the brain." ...