News tagged with deep brain
Surgical technique halts cell loss, Parkinson's researchers find
Sep 02, 2008 |
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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 ...
Girl's progress after pioneering brain surgery gives hope to other parents
Nov 26, 2009 |
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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 ...
'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
Jul 11, 2008 |
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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 ...
Novel spinal cord stimulator sparks hope for Parkinson's disease treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 19, 2009 |
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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 ...
Shedding some light on Parkinson's treatment
Apr 16, 2009 |
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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 ...
New therapy gives hope for very severe depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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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. ...
Deep Brain Stimulation Found to be Effective in Children with Treatment-Resistant Generalized Primary Dystonia
May 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
The sweet spot? Doctors test targets for Parkinson surgery
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
Study improves insights into Parkinson's disease and possible treatments
Mar 19, 2009 |
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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 ...
Deep brain stimulation may be effective treatment for Tourette's syndrome
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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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.
Deep brain stimulation treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease patients provides benefits
Jan 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Scientists review deep brain stimulation to treat psychiatric diseases
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
