http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Lexi Haas is awakening into a world of new possibilities. Miracle by tiny miracle, she is making her body do what she wants -- instead of her body always controlling her. She looked up at her mother a few weeks ago, pursed her lips and, for the first time in her life, Lexi blew a kiss. http://www.physorg.com/news178461795.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:43:51 EST news178461795 Thanks to a new method there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. German physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation. This involved implanting electrodes in the patients' nucleus accumbens. This centre has a key role in as the brains reward system, whose function may be impaired in depressive people. Subsequent to this treatment, the patients' depression improved significantly in half of the patients. All patients had suffered from very severe depression for many years and did not respond to any other therapies. The results of the study will be published in the journal Biological Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news176377535.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:50:01 EST news176377535 Deep brain stimulation may be a safe and effective treatment for Tourette syndrome, according to research published in the October 27, 2009, print issue of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news175885169.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:40:02 EST news175885169 Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome are underway at multiple medical centers around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://www.physorg.com/news165494463.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:41:59 EST news165494463 Dystonia is a very complex, highly variable neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions. As many as 250,000 people in the United States have dystonia, making it the third most common movement disorder behind essential tremor and Parkinson`s disease. The prevalence of generalized primary dystonia is estimated at 34 in 100,000 people worldwide, but cited statistics vary. This figure is most likely an underestimate, since many cases go undiagnosed for years. http://www.physorg.com/news160728387.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 07:46:59 EST news160728387 A research team lead by Karl Deisseroth in the bioengineering department at Stanford University has developed a technique to systematically characterize disease circuits in the brain. By precisely controlling individual components of the circuit implicated in Parkinson's disease, the team has identified a specific group of cells as direct targets of deep brain stimulation (DBS), a Parkinson's treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news159110689.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:25:23 EST news159110689 A novel stimulation method, the first potential therapy to target the spinal cord instead of the brain, may offer an effective and less invasive approach for Parkinson's disease treatment, according to pre-clinical data published in the journal Science by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. http://www.physorg.com/news156693095.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:52:25 EST news156693095 About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms, is that somehow it works for many patients. In a new study that will be published March 19 in the online journal Science Express, Stanford University researchers used light to illuminate how the treatment works, generating surprising insights into the diseased circuitry and also suggesting new ideas to improve Parkinson's therapy. http://www.physorg.com/news156692688.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:45:10 EST news156692688 Doctors may be able to tailor a specialized form of brain surgery to more closely match the needs of Parkinson patients, according to results from the first large-scale effort to compare the two current target areas of deep brain stimulation surgery, or DBS. http://www.physorg.com/news156173418.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:30:51 EST news156173418 Patients with advanced Parkinson disease (PD) who received deep brain stimulation treatment had more improvement in movement skills and quality of life after six months than patients who received other medical therapy, but also had a higher risk of a serious adverse events, according to a study in the January 7 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news150483770.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:02:50 EST news150483770 Deep brain stimulation, a surgical technique often viewed as a last resort for people with Parkinson's disease, halts the progression of dopamine-cell loss in animal models, according to preliminary research by scientists at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and University Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news139590667.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:11:07 EST news139590667 A typical symptom of Parkinson's disease is tremor in patients. A group of scientists, including Professor Peter Tass from Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in demonstrating the mechanisms which cause the so-called tremor: neuron clusters in the depths of the brain drive the tremor. This discovery supports Tass' research activities aiming at developing a therapy for Parkinson's disease. A new deep brain pacemaker is to bring cells out of the diseased mode for good. http://www.physorg.com/news134987390.html Physics Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:29:50 EST news134987390