Prof Winn believes deep brain stimulation is particularly useful in cases where drug treatments are proving ineffective.
Other neural implants act as "brain pacemakers, " performing deep brain stimulation to treat people with Parkinson's disease.
That was 10 years ago and at the time, I swore I would never have deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery.
Two years ago, she underwent a treatment call deep brain stimulation, which, along with "brain pacemakers" have improved her quality of life.
But he also cautions that, so far, deep brain stimulation, like existing drugs, treats the symptoms of the disease but not to change its course.
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For 15 years, people have been having brain implants to provide deep brain stimulation to treat epilepsy and Parkinson's disease -- a reported 80, 000 people have now had such devices placed in their brains.
Fox Foundation, said in an interview that he thinks that the results are particularly impressive because they compared deep brain stimulation as an addition to medicine to medicine alone and showed that the patients who got the device did better overall.
The notion that deep-brain stimulation may have benefits for memory was prompted in part by serendipity.
But the vagus nerve doesn't target all areas of the brain, so some severe disorders, such as advanced Parkinson's, may require Medtronic's more invasive deep-brain stimulation method.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved deep-brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's and a movement disorder known as dystonia, and it is used to treat chronic pain and severe depression.
The medical device giant Medtronic is testing a related technique called deep-brain stimulation, in which electrodes from a device in the chest are surgically threaded several centimeters into the brain to the site of damage.
Questions remain about using deep-brain stimulation to treat dementia, including whether it would work for Alzheimer's patients and at what stage of decline, whether it is safe and how long the effect will last, said Dr. Salloway.
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