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Using DBS in severely brain-damaged patients may be a brand-new breakthrough, but the technology has already proved itself as a treatment for the tremors of Parkinson's disease, is nearing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is in clinical trials as a therapy for depression. Studies suggest it could also help control symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dystonia--or paralytic muscle rigidity--epilepsy and even some addictions. "DBS is like a pacemaker for the brain," says Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, who performed the operation on the brain-damaged man. "We pinpoint...
...natural estrogen or that which is introduced during therapy - is protective. Now, two new, related studies in the Aug. 29 online edition of Neurology lend more support to that theory: these studies show that in women under 50, estrogen acts as a defense against later cognitive impairment, dementia and Parkinson's disease...
Rocca and his group conducted a second, more comprehensive study with the same women. With better funding this time, researchers were able to examine patients in person in order to study the impact of ovary removal on movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Again, the researchers found a powerful effect: when ovaries were removed at a relatively young age, the risk of Parkinson's disease increased. For women who had both ovaries removed before age 48, there was an exact doubling of risk compared with women with intact ovaries...
...there is an exaggerated fear of prescribing estrogen, and women have a fear of taking estrogen because of all the bad news. Women are now coming off of it at too a young an age and having increased osteoporosis and increased heart problems and now potentially increased dementia or Parkinson...
...like device in the chest. Low doses of current can then be applied as needed to calm the turmoil in the regions of the brain that cause OCD. The procedure sounds extreme--and it is--but it's already been used in about 35,000 people worldwide to treat Parkinson's disease, and FDA approval to use DBS for OCD as well is pending. "Many of our OCD patients are able to re-engage in life rather than being stuck at home," says neurosurgeon Ali Rezai of the Cleveland Clinic, who performs DBS surgery for Parkinson's and has researched...