18.02.2013                      08.Adar. 5773

Medizin & Forschung:

Parkinson's breakthrough discovery

Neurologists show deep brain stimulation at early stage of disease to be better for motor outcome and quality of life.

The implantation of deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices at an early stage of Parkinson’s disease – rather than at an advanced one – has been shown, in a breakthrough study published Thursday, to significantly reduce the tremors and other symptoms of the widespread neurodegenerative disease that begins mostly from age 60. The study, which appears in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, is likely to end the global practice up to now of implanting an electrical stimulating device only as a last resort, when medications are no longer effective….