New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease

New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease.
Deep percipience stimulation might staff improve the driving capacity of people with Parkinson's disease, a new German swot suggests. A deep brain stimulator is an implanted bearing that sends electrical impulses to the brain. With patients who have epilepsy, the stimulator is believed to reduce the risk of seizures, the researchers said kosovska. A driving simulator tested the abilities of 23 Parkinson's patients with a bottomless sagacity stimulator, 21 patients without the plot and a control group of 21 people without Parkinson's.

The patients with perception stimulators were tested three times: once with the gubbins 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 rank exclude one explained here. The patients with stimulators did not execute significantly worse than people in the control group in any category, and even did better in the grade of slight driving errors.

Patients with stimulators averaged 3,8 delicate driving errors, compared to 11,4 errors for patients without stimulators and 7,5 errors for well controls, according to the study, which was published online in the Dec 18, 2013 topic of the minute-book 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 deduct the medication full report. "Until now, we weren't secure how mystic brain stimulation would touch driving," study author Dr Carsten Buhmann, of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Germany, said in a annual front-page news release.