As a young physiology student Tipu Aziz was inspired by watching grainy videos from the 1970s showing patients undergoing brain surgery for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. The films ...

"I relied on a feeding tube for more than three months and underwent various procedures over the years, such as a thalamotomy, facial nerve and muscle transfers, and multiple surgeries on my left ...

The actor manages his symptoms with the drug carbidopa/levodopa and underwent a thalamotomy procedure in 1998. In a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Fox acknowledged the increasing ...

There are two types of surgery that may potentially help tremors in some people with MS: Thalamotomy is a surgery that destroys a part of the thalamus, a structure in the brain that helps control ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has shown remarkable therapeutic benefits for patients with otherwise treatment-resistant movement and affective disorders, such as chronic pain, Parkinson's disease ...

"I relied on a feeding tube for more than three months and underwent various procedures over the years, such as a thalamotomy, facial nerve and muscle transfers, and multiple surgeries on my left ...

Objectives: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a non-invasive targeted tissue ablation technique that can be applied to the nervous system. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) can ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that destroys substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons, causing tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability. Current treatment ...

Tremor is one of the clinical manifestations of dystonia; however, there are no specific therapeutic trials evaluating the efficacy of treatments for dystonic tremor (DT), tremor associated with ...