Search Results Tagged With DBS
What to Consider when Getting DBS
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/telehealth/topics/getting-dbs/
Have you been thinking about getting Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery? In this interactive, hour-long presentation, Dr. Farrokh Farrokhi will speak about the important things to consider when you…
September 02, 2014
Researchers Conduct Pioneering Translational Study on Immediate Antidepressant Effect of DBS
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2014/02/researchers-conduct-pioneering-translational-study-on-immediate-antidepressant-effect-of-dbs/
A research team at the University of Cadiz, headed by Professor Esther Berrocoso, in joint collaboration with mental health research groups of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Men…
February 17, 2014
Medtronic receives FDA approval for Parkinson's therapy
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2016/02/medtronic-receives-fda-approval-for-parkinsons-therapy/
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
Mid Stage Treatment
https://nwpf.org/wellness-center/stages-of-pd/mid-stage-overview/mid-stage-treatment/
On-Off flucutations
Treatment of motor flucutations requires additional medication with the goal of
Reducing off time
Increasing on time
Levodopa dosing strength can be increased, the num…
May 05, 2016
Cognition and mood predict life quality after deep-brain stimulation
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2014/11/predict-life-quality-after-dbs/
Measures of cognition and depression, rather than motor outcomes, predict the quality of life (QoL) of patients undergoing subthalamic nucleus deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease (PD)…
November 07, 2014
Watch: The brain may be able to repair itself - with help
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2015/12/the-brain-may-be-able-to-repair-itself-with-help/
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
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2016/03/a-treatment-for-parkinsons-disease-reveals-a-brain-switch-for-sadness/
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
Deep Brain Stimulation
https://nwpf.org/wellness-center/treatment/deep-brain-stimulation/
DBS is a surgical treatment option for patients that continue to have medication responsive symptoms. Although brain surgery may sound scary and does have some risks, DBS has improved the lives of tho…
July 07, 2016
Stanford Doctors Treat Parkinson's Disease Patients with Life-Changing Technology
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2014/07/advanced-brain-stimulation/
At Stanford University Medical Center a stunning innovation is just beginning.
Parkinson's disease patient Martha Gardner, 56, of San Jose strode confidently out the hospital front doors.
"(It's…
July 08, 2014
New Children's Book, Poppo's Electric Brain, Helps Take the Fear Factor Out of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease
https://nwpf.org/stay-informed/news/2014/04/new-childrens-book,-poppos-electric-brain,-helps-take-the-fear-factor-out-of-deep-brain-stimulation-surgery-for-parkinsons-disease/
When Jack McDonald elected to have Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery after more than a decade of watching his tremors and other symptoms get progressively worse, he saw it as a teachable moment for…
April 16, 2014