Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: What to expect

If you have been identified as an appropriate candidate for deep brain stimulation (DBS) after being evaluated by our team, we will work with you to schedule your surgery. You will arrive at The Johns Hopkins Hospital one day prior to the surgery and will stop taking your anti-Parkinson's medications from 10 p.m. on the day of admission until after the surgery. This helps us observe the benefit of the placement of the DBS, as well as to minimize drug-induced dyskinesias.

• Frame placement
• Frameless surgery
• Radiologic targeting
• In the operating room
• Microelectrode recording (MER)
• Microstimulation
• Macrostimulation
• Programming the deep brain stimulator

Contact us

Call 410-502-0133 if you have any questions or would like to make an appointment.