Purpose In an era of residency duty-hour restrictions, there has been a recent effort to
implement simulation-based training methods in neurosurgery teaching institutions. Several …

Constipation, one of the most common prodromal non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's
disease (PD), usually occurs several years earlier than the onset of motor symptoms …

Background: Directional deep brain stimulation (DBS) allows steering the stimulation in an
axial direction which offers greater flexibility in programming. However, accurate anatomical …

Background Survivors of stroke often experience significant disability and impaired quality of
life related to ongoing maladaptive responses and persistent neurologic deficits. Novel …

OBJECTIVE Contemporary theories of the pathophysiology of movement disorders
emphasize abnormal oscillatory activity in basal ganglia-thalamocortical loops, but these …

Active implantable neurological devices like deep brain stimulators have been used over the
past few decades to treat movement disorders such as those in people with Parkinson's …

Objective. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery has increasingly been performed for the
treatment of movement disorders and is associated with a wide array of complications. We …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been increasingly utilized for the therapeutic treatment of
movement disorders, and with the advent of this therapy more postoperative urgencies and …

Objective This study aimed to analyze the risk factors of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after
deep brain stimulation (DBS) for idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods Patients who …

Electronic stimulation devices are implanted in various locations in the body to decrease
pain, modulate nerve function, or stimulate various end organs. The authors describe these …