The aDBS treatment banished Lipp’s cramping and helped him shed most medications. Last November, he completed the 2024 New York City Marathon. “Even if the DBS is working, ...

aDBS, unlike cDBS, can sense and adjust when a patient’s brain activity changes, which often happens when people with Parkinson’s take their medications. aDBS’s constant monitoring also enables it to ...

The aDBS treatment banished Lipp’s cramping and helped him shed most medications. Last November, he completed the 2024 New York City Marathon. “Even if the DBS is working, ...

In the participant study, the aDBS therapy seemed to have improved each participant’s most persistent symptom by nearly 50 percent in contrast to conventional DBS therapy.

Therefore, aDBS uses data taken directly from a person’s brain and uses machine learning to adjust the level of stimulation in real time as the person’s needs change over time.

The four participants received aDBS alongside their existing DBS therapy. The team compared the treatments by alternating between cDBS and aDBS every two to seven days, with a cumulative period of one ...

aDBS improved each participant's most bothersome symptom roughly 50% compared to conventional DBS. Notably, even though they were not told which type of treatment they were receiving at any one ...

A seven-step workflow was designed to use aDBS to manage chronic motor disturbances. Low- and high-amplitude thresholds for aDBS were defined as 0.5-1.0 mA lower and higher than the optimal cDBS ...

The aDBS device reacted to a brain signal that marked when a patient's dopamine levels rose — right after they took their medication — and fell as the effects of the drugs wore off.