How brain stimulation alleviates symptoms of Parkinson’s disease

Researchers are investigating the mechanisms and identifying new areas of the brain that can benefit patients when stimulated.

Persons with Parkinson’s disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker. In a current study, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, investigated whether and how stimulation of a certain region of…

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