This is so fucking great. I don't care if it's spammed everywhere or old news. Parkinson's jails people in their own bodies and it's great to see someone break out.
Treating Parkinson's with electronic signal to brain
Submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
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Bigs@kbin.social 1 year ago
zoe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
chemical treatment, ie L-dopa, is useless: one develops a tolerance for the drug and increasing drug does make it more inefficient. deep brain stimulation is the way.
bluu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not knocking the technology at all, it really can be life-changing for people with Parkinson’s disease. But it’s been around for a while, it was approved in the US by the FDA in the late 90s. A chip is not implanted, but rather electrodes in the brain that connect to the controller elsewhere.
Source: I’m an anesthesiologist who has done the anesthesia for this surgery multiple times, including this morning.