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    Making waves: High-intensity focused ultrasound for essential tremor

    Making waves: High-intensity focused ultrasound for essential tremor

    Dr. Willie and his WashU Neurology colleagues are the first in Missouri to use high-intensity focused ultrasound to treat some people with essential tremor.

    Hope and healing for epilepsy

    Hope and healing for epilepsy

    Dr. Jon T. Willie and colleagues discuss how surgery has the potential of being a curative option for people with epilepsy.

    Your Fantastic Mind: Episode 12, Season 1

    Your Fantastic Mind: Episode 12, Season 1

    There is no cure for epilepsy. The best hope is controlling the seizures. But researchers have proven that if you can destroy areas of the brain where the seizures happen, you can essentially cure the person.

    Have Neuroscientists Found a “Happy Place” in the Brain?

    Have Neuroscientists Found a “Happy Place” in the Brain?

    Electrical stimulation of the cingulum bundle can trigger immediate laughter.

    Discovering a Source of Laughter in the Brain

    Discovering a Source of Laughter in the Brain

    Neuroscientists recently made some major progress on this front by pinpointing a part of the brain that, when stimulated, never fails to induce smiles and laughter.

    Doctors Zapped a Woman’s Brain So She Could Laugh Through ‘Awake’ Brain Surgery

    Doctors Zapped a Woman’s Brain So She Could Laugh Through ‘Awake’ Brain Surgery

    Stimulating this area of the brain caused a sense of well-being and relieved anxiety.

    Laughter may be best medicine – for brain surgery

    Laughter may be best medicine – for brain surgery

    Neuroscientists have discovered a focal pathway in the brain that when electrically stimulated causes immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness, even during awake brain surgery.

    How Emory Epilepsy Center Helped a Young Athlete Take Control of His Life

    How Emory Epilepsy Center Helped a Young Athlete Take Control of His Life

    Dr. Willie performed Terna’s operation. That following Monday, Terna was back to work in the office with only a single stitch on the back of his head.

    Stimulating the Amygdala Can Enhance Human Memory, Neuroscientists Say

    Stimulating the Amygdala Can Enhance Human Memory, Neuroscientists Say

    The findings are the first example of electrical brain stimulation in humans giving an event-specific boost to memory lasting more than a few minutes.

    Stimulating the Brain’s Emotional Center Enhances Memory

    Stimulating the Brain’s Emotional Center Enhances Memory

    Brief electrical stimulation of the amygdala augments links to other memory regions in the brain, raising hope for treating memory loss.