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Guidelines for sites linking to mayoclinic.orgDeep brain stimulation (DBS) is a brain (neurological) treatment in which mild electrical signals stimulate your brain. The signals reorganize your brain's electrical impulses, causing improved symptoms in many conditions affecting your brain. You may have deep brain stimulation on one or both sides of your brain, depending on your condition.
Deep brain stimulation has helped people to manage symptoms of health conditions, but it's not a cure. You may experience several benefits of deep brain stimulation, including symptom relief, the need for less medication and few side effects. You may be able to resume normal activities. Complications and risks could include bleeding in your brain, stroke or infection. Read more about deep brain stimulation.
Mayo Clinic doctors with training in brain conditions (neurologists), brain surgeons (neurosurgeons), doctors with training in mental conditions (psychiatrists), pain specialists, specialized programming nurses and other specialists use an integrated team approach to treating people who have deep brain stimulation.
Neurosurgeons first used deep brain stimulation in the United States in 1997 at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Mayo Clinic specialists have successfully used deep brain stimulation to treat hundreds of people who have essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and dystonia. Recently, doctors have used DBS to treat people who have cluster headaches, Tourette syndrome, epilepsy and chronic pain that hasn't responded to other treatment. Mayo Clinic doctors are currently researching use of DBS as a treatment for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other conditions.
Specialists at Mayo Clinic use computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI and awake brain surgery during deep brain stimulation. Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons in the Neural Engineering Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota collaborate with engineers to create or adjust devices to treat conditions affecting your brain.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals in neurology and neurosurgery.
Read more about deep brain stimulation at MayoClinic.com.
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