New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease

New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease.
Deep imagination stimulation might assistant improve the driving ability of people with Parkinson's disease, a new German analyse suggests. A deep brain stimulator is an implanted device that sends electrical impulses to the brain. With patients who have epilepsy, the stimulator is believed to shame the risk of seizures, the researchers said. A driving simulator tested the abilities of 23 Parkinson's patients with a wide perceptiveness stimulator, 21 patients without the device and a control group of 21 people without Parkinson's.

The patients with perspicacity stimulators were tested three times: once with the device on, once with the device off and once with the stimulator off after they took the Parkinson's painkiller levodopa. The Parkinson's patients without stimulators performed worse in every driving variety except one. The patients with stimulators did not perform significantly worse than individuals in the control group in any category, and even did better in the category of slight driving errors.

Patients with stimulators averaged 3,8 disparage driving errors, compared to 11,4 errors for patients without stimulators and 7,5 errors for fine fettle controls, according to the study, which was published online in the Dec 18, 2013 issue of the diary 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 operative the medication cerita sek tante bergambar. "Until now, we weren't unshakable how deep brain stimulation would affect driving," study prime mover Dr Carsten Buhmann, of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Germany, said in a record news release.