A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced ...

Researchers are working on microscopic, wireless chips that can travel through the bloodstream and self-implant in a targeted ...

What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips in the brain that electrically stimulate a precise target, through a ...

What if brain surgery could be replaced by a simple injection in the arm? MIT researchers may have found a way to make that ...

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 ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...

Deep-brain structures like the basal ganglia or the thalamus wield major influence on our behavior. If something goes awry, dysregulation in the deep brain may trigger neurological conditions like ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

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Tools like intraoperative MRI and 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence are fundamentally changing the approach to ...