{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-03T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/center\/brain-stimulatioin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:14:54","slug":"brain-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/brain-stimulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Brain Stimulation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) program at Boston University Medical Campus is a collaborative medical and surgical program offered by the departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery for the treatment of Parkinson&#8217;s disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia. This multidisciplinary program combines the efforts of the departments of neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychiatry, behavioral medicine, anesthesiology, and nursing. Neurosurgical interventions for Parkinson&#8217;s disease and tremor have been offered at BUMC since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>A multi-step screening process is used to carefully select patients for this procedure. Some patients who may be candidates for surgery include: 1) patients who do not have good movement control despite optimized medical therapy and 2) patients who have dyskinesia or other side effects which limit the use of Parkinson&#8217;s medications.<\/p>\n<p>In the selection process patients are referred by their neurologist for a screening neurological consultation by the neurological DBS program team members. Patients are evaluated with a brain MRI, neuropsychological testing and movement testing with videotaping. A meeting is also scheduled with the neurosurgeon who provides information on DBS and determines eligibility for surgery.<\/p>\n<p>After DBS surgery, follow up neurological care and adjustments of medications and DBS neurostimulators is conducted by our team. To learn more about the Deep Brain Stimulation program, <a href=\"\/parkinsonsdisease\/files\/2024\/02\/DBS-Patient-Manual-PD.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<a href=\"mailto:m_diggin@hotmail.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>DBS Personnel<\/h2>\n<h3>Neurosurgery<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/profile\/pratik-rohatgi-md\/\">Pratik Rohatgi, MD, Neurosurgical Director<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Movement Disorder Neurologists<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/profile\/steve-c-han-md-mba\/\">Steve C. Han, MD, MBA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/profile\/katelyn-bird-md\/\">Katelyn Bird, MD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Movement Disorder Nurses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kara Ourique, RN, BSN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) program at Boston University Medical Campus is a collaborative medical and surgical program offered by the departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery for the treatment of Parkinson&#8217;s disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia. This multidisciplinary program combines the efforts of the departments of neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychiatry, behavioral medicine, anesthesiology, and nursing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1885,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}