Sentences with phrase «undergo deep brain»

The firing of a single neuron is believed to be the basic unit of brain computation, and these studies are accomplished through the collaboration of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons, with the consent and participation of patients who undergo deep brain electrode placement for diagnostic or treatment procedures.

The study — conducted in collaboration with the Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital in Udine, under the leadership of Raffella Rumiati, in charge of SISSA neuroscience and society lab — has involved 18 Parkinsonian patients who underwent deep brain stimulation and 18 healthy volunteers.

All patients underwent deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes and stimulating areas of the brain that control dysfunctional behaviours.

He gave a similarly negative reply to a question about the use of the vaccine in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for PD, «given the mode of action of disease modifiers,» because DBS is typically reserved to patients in relatively advanced stages of the disease.

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«We are now in the process of developing a complete procedure for connectivity - based deep brain stimulation, which will then need to undergo further validation studies.»

Stimulating neurons deep within the brain can help treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease and obsessivecompulsive disorder, but right now patients must undergo invasive electrode implants.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

The patients agreed to undergo several minutes of deep brain stimulation to these regions during surgery as the electrode was being implanted.

Many scientists believe that certain neurons, deep inside the brains of people with the HD mutation, are undergoing something like standing next a jet plane, and that HD happens when those neurons are over-excited to death.

He underwent a deep - brain stimulation procedure in 2006 that has slowed the advance of his symptoms.

This channel catalogues life following diagnosis of early onset Parkinson's Disease, and the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery that I underwent to control my symptoms.