Deep Brain Stimulation Devices For Brain Disorders
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a surgical procedure used to treat several disabling neurological symptoms — most commonly weakened motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), such as tremor, stiffness, stiffness, slow motion, and walking problems. The treatment is also used to treat critical tremor, dystonia, and focal epilepsy (epilepsy that originates in just one part of the brain). At present, the treatment is only used by people whose symptoms cannot be sufficiently managed by medicine. However, only persons who develop to any degree after taking Parkinson's medications benefit from DBS. Deep Brain Stimulation Devices What is the deep brain stimulation technology? Deep brain stimulation uses a battery-operated, surgically implanted medical device called an implantable pulse generator (IPG)—similar to a cardiac pacemaker and around the size of a stopwatch — to deliver electrical stimulation to different areas of the brain that regulate movement, th...