DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain. DBS in select brain regions has provided remarkable therapeutic benefits for otherwise treatment-resistant movement and affective disorders such as chronic pain, Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonia. Despite the long history of DBS, its underlying principles and mechanisms are still not clear. DBS directly changes brain activity in a controlled manner, its effects are reversible (unlike those of lesioning techniques) and is one of only a few neurosurgical methods that allows blinded studies...
Deep brain stimulation - List of case studies
- Motor Neuropathy – additional opinion
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the patient has performed on 12/2007 an MRI of the brain (within normal limits) and an MRI of overall rachis (posteromedian disc ... of amplitude of the M answer in proximal site on the left deep peroneal nerve is reported, this to be related to an abundant ...
- Treatments
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injection Brachitherapy Brachytherapy Brain irradiation Breg-type lumbar orthopaedic brace Brodstrum ... Decompression at L3-4 Decompression surgery Deep brain stimulation Deepening fornix operation Definitive ...
- Cervical Dystonia
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strategies: medical treatment by different oral drugs, or deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus interna. ...
- Cervical Dystonia – additional opinion
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dystonia include anticholinergic therapy, Baclofen, or deep brain stimulation, but the mainstay of therapy remains botulinum toxin injections, ...