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2. Parkinson’s 'brain pacemaker' halves symptom time in small trial

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   An small new study has found that adaptive deep brain stimulation that uses AI can reduce the time a person experiences their most bothersome Parkinson's symptom by around 50%.

3. Parkinson's disease - Wikipedia

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   James Parkinson. Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and, as the disease progresses, non-motor symptoms become more common. Usual symptoms include tremors, slowness ...

4. Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Frequency. 0.2% [1] Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPWS) is a disorder due to a specific type of problem with the electrical system of the heart involving an accessory pathway able to conduct electrical current between the atria and the ventricles, thus bypassing the atrioventricular node. [2][3] About 60% of people with the electrical ...

5. Deep brain stimulation - Wikipedia

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   Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure that implants a neurostimulator and electrodes which sends electrical impulses to specified targets in the brain responsible for movement control. The treatment is designed for a range of movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, as well as for certain ...

6. Parkinson's disease and gut-brain axis - Wikipedia

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   Parkinson's disease and gut-brain axis. Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, affects 1% of people over 60 years of age. [1][2][3] In the past three decades, the number of PD cases has doubled globally from 2.5 million in 1990 to 6.1 million in 2016. [4][5] As of 2022, there are ...

7. Ablative brain surgery - Wikipedia

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   Ablative brain surgery (also known as brain lesioning) is the surgical ablation by various methods of brain tissue to treat neurological or psychological disorders. The word "Ablation" stems from the Latin word Ablatus meaning "carried away". In most cases, however, ablative brain surgery does not involve removing brain tissue, but rather ...