Hyderabad doctors perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery on a 23-year-old man, resulting in a remarkable recovery from severe dystonia. The surgery, which is typically reserved for conditions like Parkinson's Disease, successfully controlled the involuntary movements and tremors, allowing the man to walk, eat, and perform daily tasks independently.
The brain is constantly pulsing with electricity. That’s the idea behind deep brain stimulation, a technique that delivers tiny zaps of electricity to brain tissue via implanted electrodes. Those live in different brain areas,” says Sameer Sheth, a neurosurgeon at Baylor College of Medicine who studies DBS and coauthored a recent review paper on its use for obsessive-compulsive disorder. “The …
Global Centre for Excellence in Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Director Ravi Gopal Varma said that ‘Deep Brain Stimulation ‘ treatment gives a new lease of life for people suffering from movement disorders caused by Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Dr. Ravi Gopal, along with Ramesh Hospitals managing director P. Ramesh Babu and chief consultant Major General Somasundaram Kumaravelu, interacted with the media on …
The findings of recent research from Baylor College of Medicine suggests that a combination of exercise and deep brain stimulation can have benefits for treating a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease called ataxia, which is characterized by progressive irreversible problems with movement. Working with a mouse model of the human condition, researchers at Baylor and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological …
