Researchers at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), led by professors Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have achieved a major milestone in the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI). By ...

New closed-loop system self-adjusts DBS therapy to individual brain activity in real time; the largest commercial launch of brain-computer interface technology ever There is no cure for debilitating ...

European approval introduces the world's only closed-loop DBS system with real-time, self-adjusting brain stimulation for people with Parkinson's disease For 30 years, people with Parkinson's disease ...

Long-term outcome research indicates that deep brain stimulation holds promise for the treatment of intractable major /topics/Depression" class="cnnInlineTopic">depression and obsessive-compulsive ...

For more than twenty years deep brain stimulation (DBS) is being used in patients with movement disorders, predominantly in refractory Parkinson's disease (PD) followed by dystonia and essential ...

New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again. In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne ...

The first patient implanted at Brown University Health marks the expansion of the study to multiple clinical sites RESTORE aims to generate the data necessary to demonstrate the long-term safety and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Offering asleep or awake DBS aims to provide PD patients choice, impetus for choosing DBS therapy sooner.