But to truly test whether their prototype device could
help essential tremor patients overcome their condition's effects, the Lift Labs team turned to Chou, who with his colleagues sees hundreds of essential tremor patients a year.
A neurosurgical procedure in which an implanted neurostimulator delivers electrical signals to specific areas of the brain to
help regulate abnormal signals, DBS is currently only approved in the U.S. for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and
essential tremor.