A suburban man is making music again with help from some high-tech surgery. Music instructor Matt O'Brien's transformation ...

For patients with essential tremors, these daily struggles are reality. But at Novant Health in North Carolina, doctors are using sound waves instead of surgery to treat this brain disorder—and ...

A suburban man is making music again with help from some high-tech surgery. Music instructor Matt O'Brien's transformation ...

The Miami Neuroscience Center at Larkin Hospital in South Miami has successfully performed its first focused ultrasound ...

Essential tremor is a type of neurological disorder ... offers the Vercise Genus™ Deep Brain Stimulation System. "The Vercise Genus System, with image-guided programming, provides physicians ...

In deep brain stimulation (DBS), surgeons implant electrodes into a specific part of your brain. The electrodes are connected ...

The standard medication levodopa does not always work against tremors in Parkinson's disease, especially in stressful situations.

Propranolol, however, does work during stress, providing insight into the role of the stress system in tremors. MRI scans reveal that propranolol directly inhibits activity in the brain circuit ...

She then compounded the fraud by emailing a forged letter from a physician that said she had a "life threatening brain tremor (sic)" that would account for her recent lack of comprehension ...

But simply relaxing didn't stop O'Brien's tremors. What did is a procedure called "deep brain stimulation." It all starts in O'Brien's head. "There are two very small wires that go into the brain ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A suburban man is making music again with help from some high-tech surgery. Music instructor Matt O'Brien's transformation has been remarkable. O'Brien struggles to do what he ...