New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease

New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease.
Deep mastermind stimulation might relieve improve the driving proficiency of people with Parkinson's disease, a new German scrutinize suggests. A deep brain stimulator is an implanted badge that sends electrical impulses to the brain. With patients who have epilepsy, the stimulator is believed to take down the risk of seizures, the researchers said vito mol. A driving simulator tested the abilities of 23 Parkinson's patients with a learned knowledge stimulator, 21 patients without the utensil and a control group of 21 people without Parkinson's.

The patients with acumen stimulators were tested three times: once with the slogan on, once with the device off and once with the stimulator off after they took the Parkinson's drug levodopa. The Parkinson's patients without stimulators performed worse in every driving area omit one. The patients with stimulators did not bring off significantly worse than people in the control group in any category, and even did better in the division of slight driving errors.

Patients with stimulators averaged 3,8 disregard driving errors, compared to 11,4 errors for patients without stimulators and 7,5 errors for bracing controls, according to the study, which was published online in the Dec 18, 2013 point of the tabloid Neurology. Parkinson's patients with stimulators made 11 driving errors when their stimulator was on, 13 errors when it was off and they took levodopa, and 14 errors when their stimulator was off and they did not put the medication bestvito.eu. "Until now, we weren't indubitable how bottomless brain stimulation would attack driving," study author Dr Carsten Buhmann, of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Germany, said in a logbook scuttlebutt release.