In the News

Parkinson's Disease

Benefits of Deep Brain Stimulation for Early Stage Parkinson Disease (Neurology Advisor, 07/21/2020)

5-year Study Shows the Long-term Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's (Technology Networks, 07/02/2020)

Neuromodulation Society honors Hacker’s Parkinson’s research (VUMC Reporter, 12/06/2018)

Parkinson’s study to track impact of DBS on earliest patients (VUMC Reporter, 08/30/2018)

For Parkinson’s patients, a surreal brain surgery offers new hope (The Tennessean, 08/29/2018)

DBS treatment may slow tremor progression in early-stage Parkinson’s patients (Science Daily, 06/29/2018)

Trial to test whether DBS slows Parkinson’s progression (VUMC Reporter, 09/01/2016)

Tuning the Brain, Taming the Tremors (Vanderbilt Medicine Magazine, Summer 2016)

Spasticity

Nursing home study reveals 'woeful' underdiagnosis of spasticity (MedicalXPress, 04/09/2020)

Reducing Untreated Spasticity in the Elderly (Vanderbilt Discover, 10/10/2019)