Emily Hollenbeck lived with a recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her.

The treatment gives patients targeted electrical impulses, much like a pacemaker for the brain. A growing body of recent research is promising, with more underway — although two large studies ...

While much more research is needed, several experts predicted that some versions of brain pacemakers could be available ...

Deep brain stimulation is a treatment that involves implanting a small device into the brain. It offers hope for those living ...

Baylor College of Medicine received nearly $10 million in funding from the NIH BRAIN Initiative to study effective treatments ...

Although brain-implanted electrodes do help minimize the effects of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders, ...

“I believe this field is where heart pacemaker devices were 25 to 30 years ago. Brain pacemakers are going to have a significant impact on the treatment for a number of neurological and ...

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center doctors were the first to implant a pacemaker into a woman's brain to determine if using a brain pacemaker can improve cognitive and behavioral ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

As tech companies and scientists invest in technology that interacts with our brains, some experts say we’re far from being ...

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 ...