Search Results Tagged With DBS
Medtronic receives FDA approval for Parkinson's therapy
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Medtronic PLC announced Food and Drug Administration approval Wednesday to sell a deep-brain stimulation device that can treat complications from Parkinson’s disease much earlier than before.
February 17, 2016
Watch: The brain may be able to repair itself - with help
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Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues m…
December 01, 2015
A treatment for Parkinson's disease reveals a brain switch for sadness
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Surgeons snaked the electrodes under the 65-year-old woman’s scalp. Thirty years of Parkinson’s disease had almost frozen her limbs. The wires, connected to a kind of pacemaker under the skin, were ai…
March 03, 2016
The Medical Minute: With Parkinson's disease, countering symptoms is key
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Research on Parkinson’s has found that the neurons are dying for a reason, so replacing dying cells with stem cells tends not to work – the new cells come under attack just as the old ones did.
December 03, 2015
How Deep-Brain Stimulation Reshapes Neural Circuits in Parkinson’s Disease
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UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a possible mechanism for how deep-brain stimulation (DBS), a widely used treatment for movement disorders, exerts its therapeutic effects.
April 13, 2015
Clues to How an Electric Treatment for Parkinson’s Works
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Despite its clear effectiveness, scientists have struggled to understand what D.B.S. actually does to the brain. D.B.S. may counter Parkinson’s disease by liberating the brain from a devastating elect…
April 16, 2015