DBS electrodes and generators in place.

The ability to alter brain function by the focused application of small electrical impulses has changed forever the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders such as Essential Tremor and Dystonia.

MUSC has acquired state-of-the-art instruments (the Axon Guideline amplifier and micro drive system), making it one of few centers in the United States that can perform microelectrode recording-guided stereotactic functional neurosurgery for movement disorders. Under the guidance of Dr. Istvan Takacs, a pioneer in the implementation of deep brain stimulators in the U.S., the interventional neurosurgical program has rapidly become one of the most productive programs in the country. We perform a bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation weekly, among other types of functional neurosurgery.