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Dr Tabish Saifee
Queen Square Private Healthcare
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
Deep Brain Stimulation is pacemaker with an electrode wire connected to parts of the brain responsible for movement which stimulates those areas to treat dyskinesic symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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Deep brain stimulation is a treatment for certain patients with Parkinson's Disease, where the movement areas, or the motor areas, deep down in the brain can be stimulated with an electrode. That involves a brain operation with a little electrode being tunnelled deep down into the brain to provide that stimulation and a wire being tunnelled down under the skin with a little pacemaker on the chest.
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