After struggling for years with severe OCD, Jorun Christianson found hope through deep brain stimulation at ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ. This innovative treatment transformed his life, allowing him to reconnect...
Michael Martinez, a former mountain biker and bodybuilder, faced a life-changing diagnosis when he discovered he had a metastatic brain tumor originating from kidney cancer. With the support of U...
Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder in the world—10 times more common than Parkinson's disease. Luckily, for difficult to treat cases there is hope in the form of...
When Susan Veater was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in July 2015, she didn't know much about the disease. "When I got the diagnosis, I wasn't sure what it meant," Veater...
Edith Molstad, a young girl from Sweden, was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. Diet and medications weren't enough to treat her seizures until she flew to the Utah...
Doni Jones, an English teacher, first noticed a slight tremor in her hands while grading papers or writing on the board in her classroom. Years later, her tremor worsened and...
Jenny Rhoads Larkin was hit by a car during one of her daily runs. She suffered many injuries, including a severe traumatic brain injury. At U of U ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ, a...
Amanda Rush woke up one morning with an annoying twitch in one eye. Except this twitch didn't seem to go away. As time went on, the twitch turned into one...
Judd Jones was working in the yard when one of his arms, neck, and back started tingling and returned the next day. He was diagnosed with a chronic subdural hematoma...
Mark Armstrong grew up in Colorado, where he loved to fish in the lakes and streams. He eventually turned that love of fishing into a full-time job offering people guided...
For 25 years, Danielle struggled with epilepsy. Every few weeks, she would suffer from multiple seizures per day for an entire week. Her neurologist suggested the Neuropace RNS System.
John Kestle, MD, professor of neurosurgery at ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ, is the principal investigator on a major $10M National Institutes of ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ-funded grant that is studying care improvements for...
This automated machine could reduce a surgical procedure from two hours to two and a half minutes by replacing hand drills for one type of complex cranial surgery.
