The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

Deep brain stimulation uses electricity to shock the brain in areas that help send messages to the body.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

The study found that the physical condition of Parkinson's patients often improves after they receive deep brain stimulation.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

It showed that a treatment called dorsal column stimulation could re-establish movement in rodents with Parkinson's-like problems.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

In the United States,Parkinson's patients can receive deep brain stimulation at about three hundred medical centers.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

He noted that doctors already use spinal cord stimulation in people to help reduce long-lasting pain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Deep brain stimulation begins by doctors drilling two small holes in the head of the patient.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Doctors do not know exactly how the brain stimulation works to help patients with Parkinson's.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

But brain stimulation was also shown to have more side effects than drug treatments.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

The Epilepsy Foundation says people using Vagus Nerve Stimulation still must take anti-seizure medicines.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

A surgical operation called deep-brain stimulation also is used to treat Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Deep brain stimulation can reduce the need for levodopa and other drugs.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Deep brain stimulation is not the answer for all Parkinson's patients.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Recently,a report in Science magazine showed how deep-brain stimulation works.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Deep brain stimulation is also costly.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

"Exercise,diet,cognitive stimulation showed some positive effects, although the evidence was not so strong that we could actually consider these firmly established."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The exact type of stimulation that an individual uses is not as important as being intellectually engaged."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"Cognitive stimulation is one of the areas where we did find some benefit.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, that we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact,important."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17