Brain Implant Cures Woman's Tourette's Tics

3 January 2012

A patient who is part of the first UK trial to evaluate the impact of 'deep brain stimulation' on Tourette's - a collaboration between the UCL Institute of Neurology (

ucl.ac.uk/ion/departments/sobell/Research/UFN" target="_self">Unit of Functional Neurosurgery) and the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery - has experienced a dramatic recovery.