QBI's Deep Brain Stimulation Research Delivers Great Rewards

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The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is a truly amazing organisation. Here, some of the world’s leading neuroscientists are working to ‘crack the brain’s code’ to bring new understandings of aging and chronic diseases and vital insights that underpin brain-activated bionic solutions.

QBI’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation is a world leader in using deep brain stimulation (DBS) to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.

Fifteen years of world-class deep brain stimulation (DBS) research at QBI has delivered great rewards with neurologist, Professor Peter Silburn and surgeon, Associate Professor Terry Coyne having now completed over 1,000 DBS surgeries. Before having DBS, Parkinson’s disease patient, Ken Smith, could no longer sign his name or use a computer.

Ken tells his story here.