Neuroscience
From Reuters:
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- Deep Brain Stimulation And Tourette's Syndrome
Over the past few months, there have been a number of stories in the media about the topic of deep brain stimulation and its possible applications in the near future. The following article comes from Canada’s Globe and Mail:Surgery helps short-circuit...
- Awareness Month: Parkinson’s Disease
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- Penn Neurosurgery Welcomes Timothy H. Lucas Ii, Md, Phd
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Neuroscience
Alternative to Deep-Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease?
From Reuters:
Brain Surface Stimulation May Ease Parkinson's[ ... Read the full article ... ]
Mon Jan 3, 2005 06:22 PM GMT
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Electrical stimulation of regions deep in the brain has become fairly common in recent years for treating Parkinson's disease symptoms, but there may be a simpler and safer alternative.
The results of a study in baboons suggest that stimulation of the motor control area on the brain's surface works too.
Delivering electrical stimulation to deep brain regions has been shown to help some people with Parkinson's, but the skill required to implant the electrodes, as well as the risks of electrode misplacement, have limited the use of this procedure.
Parkinson's symptoms have been tied to abnormal electrical activity in neurons in the main area that controls movement -- the motor cortex -- which is in the outer layer of the brain, a French team notes in the medical journal Neuron.
- The Brain Radio
The Brain Radio is a long-running French radio program: THE BRAIN are Eva & Pascal Lebrain aka Puyo puyo, they run this radioshow from 1999, it deals with freaky electro, cheesy vintage, dry rock, movie themes and oddities in general. All is stuffed...
- More On Dbs (and The Neurological/psychiatric Divide)
"The microdrive behind the sterile curtain will insert probes into my brain a few micrometers at a time." - Steven Gulie in Wired It seems that deep brain stimulation is in the news these days, particularly DBS for Parkinson's disease. Neurophilosophy...
- Deep Brain Stimulation And Tourette's Syndrome
Over the past few months, there have been a number of stories in the media about the topic of deep brain stimulation and its possible applications in the near future. The following article comes from Canada’s Globe and Mail:Surgery helps short-circuit...
- Awareness Month: Parkinson’s Disease
April is National Parkinson's Awareness Month. Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, has no known cause in most cases. Medically, Parkinson’s has been traced to the death of dopamine-generating cells in the...
- Penn Neurosurgery Welcomes Timothy H. Lucas Ii, Md, Phd
Timothy H. Lucas II, MD, PhD joins the Department of Neurosurgery as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. Dr. Lucas specializes in the surgical treatment of epilepsy and brain tumors, with particular emphasis on lesions near eloquent cortex,...