Who Is Eligible for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)? (0:38)
Patients who no longer benefit from medicine and are healthy enough for surgery may be candidates for deep brain stimulation, says biomedical engineer and Johns Hopkins University professor Sri Sarma, PhD. Watch this video to learn more.
Sridevi Sarma, PhD, is a biomedical engineer and a professor at the Institute of Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sarma's work centers around deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. She is the winner of a Catalyst Award and has been featured on NatGeo Channel's Brain Games show.
