A new study has found that deep meditation, when practised for 7 days, can rewire your brain. You need to know why this ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...

Research has long shown that meditation influences brain function, but exactly when changes begin after starting - and how they evolve with continued meditation - has been less clear. A recent study ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves stimulating certain parts of your brain with implanted electrodes. It’s a promising treatment for treatment-resistant OCD. The main treatments for OCD are talk ...

An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his 60th ...

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

There is still no cure for Parkinson’s disease, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new deep brain stimulator that could benefit patients with the motor condition. On Feb 24, ...