Congratulations Drs. Sol De Jesus, Leonardo Almeida, Leili Shahgholi, Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, Aparna Wagle-Shukla, and …

Congratulations Drs. Gunduz, Foote and Okun on the publication of “Reengineering Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: Emerging Technologies,” in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering’s September issue.   Abstract Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical technique, which consists of continuous delivery of an electrical pulse through chronically implanted electrodes…

Congratulations Drs Okun, Foote and Gunduz on the publication of “Report of a patient undergoing chronic responsive deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome: proof of concept” in the September issue of Journal of Neurosurgery.   Abstract Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a promising intervention for the…

Congratulations to Drs. Deeb and Okun on the publication of their case file “Management of Elevated Therapeutic Impedances on Deep Brain Stimulation Leads,” which was published in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements. Abstract Clinical Vignette: A 64-year-old male with a history of essential tremor with bilateral thalamic ventralis intermedius deep brain stimulation…

Congratulations to Drs. Okun, and Foote on the publication of “Thalamic DBS with a constant-current device in essential tremor: A controlled clinical trial.”  This article was published in the March issue of Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. Introduction This study of thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) investigated whether a novel…