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Pacemaker for Brains to Treat Widspread Disorders
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by Barbara McPherson | June 3, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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Deep brain stimulation has been used much like a pacemaker for the brain to treat Parkinson's Disease. The electrical stimulation of brain tissue seems to diminishes symptoms associated with that disease. Now clinical trials are proposed to test deep brain stimulation to treat many more disorders, some are physical some may be mental.
A growing number of psychiatric researchers are testing the method’s effectiveness on a host of psychiatric disorders. Until recently, deep brain stimulation was approved in the U.S. only to treat certain movement disorders, primarily those of Parkinson’s disease, for which it diminishes tremors and rigidity and improves mobility. To date, more than 60,000 patients worldwide have had the devices implanted [Los Angeles Times]. But now large clinical trials are in the works that will test the use of deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder, epilepsy, and depression. Smaller experiments are beginning to assess the therapy’s effectiveness on a wide range of disorders including anorexia, drug addiction, obesity, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer’s.
Are we seeing the future here? Maybe we will all be fitted with our electronic brain implant. Who can say what weird and wonderful uses such devices could be put to? The old science fiction story Terminal Man comes to mind here. Maybe this will empty our jails? Everyone will be calm and sane. Uh, huh.
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at 13:19 on June 3rd, 2009
We wish (calm and sane), right?:) Kidding aside, thanks for this story, Barbara.
at 18:18 on June 3rd, 2009
The pacemaker for brains is a great idea!
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Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1993
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