More contacts, more targeted impulses: in Wรผrzburg, a new brain pacemaker against Parkinson’s was used for the first time in this contry. The patient reports improvements a few weeks later.
In mid-june, a 69-year-old affected person was used in the Wรผrzburg university Hospital in Germany for the first time in Germany. The university now announced this. The electrode serves deep brain stimulation, it is saeid. According to the information, this is considered the most long-term effective treatment option for the advanced Parkinson’s disease, which leads to a malfunction of the motor network of the brain.
Parkinson’s slowed movements, tremors, muscle stiffness and difficulties in balance and coordination can bring with them, the statement says. As illness progresses, this leads to massive restrictions in everyday life in those affected.
The stimulation linders the symptoms of movement disorders by sending the built-in electrodes to delicate electrical impulses to certain brain regions in the brain.Ideally,symptoms such as tremors,muscle stiffness and slowed movements could be reduced. The number of 16 contacts is especially about the new electrodes, it is indeed said. That is twice as much as with other electrodes, so that stimulation in the brain is very precisely controlled and thus more individually adaptable to the needs of the patient.This applies to both implantation itself and to changes in the symptoms in the course of the disease.
The electrodes are also connected to a new brain pacemaker, which is implanted under the keybone under the skin, the message continues. The process is supplemented by new software. These could design,calculate and simulate stimulation based on the brain images of those affected. The electrodes could be controlled better.In addition,the testing of the individual stimulation programs becomes easier and faster.
Along with the use of Parkinson’s, deep brain stimulation is also examined as an experimental treatment option for psychiatric disorders, such as in severe depression or obsessive-compulsive disorders. The exact mode of action of the technology in the brain has not yet been fully understood and the subject of current research. Though, it is indeed clear that the treatment can at least temporarily affect the mood and personality of patients and, among other things, lead to manic symptoms.
The treated patient is now reporting improvements a few weeks after the implantation.
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