Word: parkinsonism
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...your ears and into batteries that are implanted in your chest. Then current from the batteries zaps some bad signals in your brain so that good signals can be heard by the rest of your body. When it works, as it generally does, it greatly reduces the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. I wrote in Time 41/2 years ago about having PD and adopting a strategy of denial: pretending to myself and others that I didn't have it. By now my symptoms are past the point where dishonesty and self-deception are a useful approach. But maybe this operation...
...Following the set canonical process allows an official and thorough accounting of John Paul's "entire life...all his deeds." There are a multitude of cases of supposed miracles attributed to the late pope, but officials are zeroing in on the healing of a French nun suffering from Parkinson's disease, the same progressive nervous system ailment that had stricken John Paul. Doctors will have to confirm that there is no medical explanation for the nun's recovery. "The miracle is the confirmation," explained Father Gumpel. "In all human undertakings there can be mistakes, so we need divine confirmation...
...findings have fostered interest in the U.S., where doctors are using hypnosis for procedures in which sedation is inappropriate or for patients who are allergic to anesthetics. Dr. David Spiegel, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, hypnotizes Parkinson's sufferers during the implantation of deep-brain electrodes--a process that requires tremulous patients to remain conscious and calm. He has also coaxed children into imagining that a balloon tied to their wrist will fly them to their favorite places, a hypnotic technique that has lessened anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing bladder catheterizations...
Imagine you could unlock the secrets of Alzheimer's or Parkinson?s disease just by dissecting the brains of a few mice. Now imagine that the reason those mice were so revealing was because those brains were at least partly human...
...test that idea, Bartzokis used magnetic resonance imaging to study the volume and distribution of white matter in 300 healthy subjects from 18 to 75 years old as well as in hundreds of older people suffering from such brain-related ills as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. As he suspected, the healthy adults had the most myelin in the frontal and temporal lobes--where big thoughts live. The quantity of sheathing reached its peak around 45 or 50, exceeding the amount in unhealthy older subjects and healthy younger ones...