A Review of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease
A Review of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease, by David P. Sohal, MD, MPH Senior Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Fox Chase Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School. He will be speaking Wednesday, November 22 at 3:30 p. in the Fox Chase Cancer Center Lifestyles in Motion Conference room.
This is an abstract and no full transcript is available.
About 50 people signed up for a clinical trial of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease. We had two cases of Parkinson’s disease, and we’re now in a third. So, two men and two women. The first case was an 80-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease and was not responding well to oral medication. He had severe motor and postural fluctuations, and he had a severe cognitive decline. The second case was a 70-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease. She was also not responding well to dopamine replacement, and her cognitive function was very severe. So, we’re talking about two very severe cases of Parkinson’s disease. And the third patient was the only one who had a deep brain stimulation procedure.
You can see that all three patients had very severe motor and postural fluctuations, and so they had problems with balance, and they had problems walking, walking on their own, walking on a non-porous surface. And the cognitive function was profound. All three patients had very slow gait. Their gait was slow, but at least on a level of walking, the patient with the Deep Brain Stimulation had more advanced gait. So, they didn’t have good gait, and the cognitive function was very severe.
And what’s interesting about the three patients that were treated was that the two on the first device, they were all responsive and could walk on their own. They had improvements, they improved significantly. The second patient could walk, but had more difficulty with standing and using the toilet, and so now it’s more complicated than it would have been to walk on their own. Because the patient couldn’t control the chair that they were in.
In Parkinson’s disease, Home Health Care is safe, effective – after Deep Brain Stimulation.
Home Health Care and Stem Cell Therapy for Deep Brain Stimulation.
Home Health Care is Safe, Effective and Effective is the title to two articles published by the Journal of Neural Engineering, the leading journal for electrical and neuromodulation studies, from our press release on September 13, 2008.
The two articles described the results of three clinical trials and the results of two non-randomized pilot studies that examined the safety and effectiveness of home health care in the prevention and treatment of tremor in Parkinson’s disease. The articles, “In Parkinson’s disease, Home Health Care is safe, effective. After Deep Brain Stimulation” and “In Parkinson’s disease, Home Health Care is safe, effective: A pilot study of the effectiveness of home health care in the treatment of tremor in Parkinson’s disease”, provide important research findings into the effectiveness, safety and effectiveness of home health care in the prevention and treatment of tremor in Parkinson’s disease.
The Parkinson’s Disease International Research Foundation and the Parkinson’s Disease International Research Foundation have conducted three clinical trials to study the effectiveness of home health care in the prevention and treatment of tremors in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The data reported by the three studies indicates that home health care can reduce, and possibly treat, tremors in PD. The data from the three studies is very important because it is the largest dataset in PD and it is the most complete set of data available for Parkinson’s disease.
The three trials have been published in three scientific journals: Journal of Neural Engineering, JNNED, and Neuron.
Postoperative Deep Brain Stimulation Management for PD at the University of Florida Health.
“We conducted a meta-analysis to quantitatively synthesize the current evidence concerning the effectiveness of DBS in PD that meets the inclusion criteria for publication in an online database. ” Introduction The most common PD medication in the United States is L-dopa. However, L-dopa itself is not without the side effects that come with its use. There is growing recognition that DBS as a treatment for PD should receive high level of attention. As a treatment modality, the primary purpose of DBS therapy is to address motor symptoms and functional impairments caused by L-dopa use. DBS, in its most common form, functions by inducing the release of the nerve cell from synaptic connections of the targeted dopamine cell and a surrounding area. The DBS system is implanted into the brain directly to reestablish the functional connections of a treated muscle. This system works by generating and delivering electrical impulses via implanted electrodes. Each target nerve cell is in turn paired to an area of the brain called a nucleus, thus creating a functional circuit. DBS has shown to be an effective treatment for many movement disorders. 1 The primary benefit of DBS is that it is painless and non-invasive. The treatment is less invasive than other available treatments. In addition, it is not associated with complications like permanent movement abnormalities and neurocognitive changes which are associated with the use of medication. However, the efficacy of DBS in PD is not widely known and available evidence to confirm the efficacy of DBS in PD is limited. 1 Several meta-analyses have been conducted to assess the efficacy of DBS in PD. Most of the meta-analyses were conducted by two independent investigators. Because of the high level of heterogeneity, the meta-analyses could not be combined. However, a few meta-analyses were able to pool the data and provide much more information regarding the effectiveness of DBS in PD. The goal of this article is to synthesize the available evidence on the effectiveness of DBS in PD and to provide a comprehensive overview on the efficacy of DBS in PD.
The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview on the effectiveness of DBS in PD and to determine the factors that influence the outcome. There are many available treatment options that have been developed for the therapy of PD, including levodopa.
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The home health postoperative [deep brain stimulation] programming improves outcomes for patients and caregivers.
The home health postoperative deep brain stimulation programming improves outcomes for patients and caregivers. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a treatment option for treatment-resistant depression but can cause disabling side effects. Despite these concerns, a small but significant proportion of patients obtain an improvement in depressive symptoms postoperatively, which has been associated with better outcomes.
A Cochrane systematic review of 16 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of patients with treatment-resistant depression who were eligible for DBS showed that DBS led to a small but significant improvement in depressive symptoms on average across the RCTs reviewed. The authors reported a weighted mean difference of 0. 33 in the average number of days with depression, 0. 18 in the average duration of depression, and 0. 22 in the average number of mood-stabilizing antidepressive medications. The authors noted that the small effects were mostly due to the effect on depression symptoms, which was more prominent in studies where DBS was combined with cognitive therapy (CT) strategies or where DBS was paired with another depression prophylactic therapy.
The authors concluded that the benefits in terms of depressive symptoms were small to moderate, and the benefits on the duration and the number of mood-stabilizing antidepressants did not achieve statistical significance. They were cautious in interpreting the evidence and noted that they did not have enough power to detect such small changes in patients with treatment-resistant depression.
The authors concluded that the findings of this review cannot be generalized to patients who have not had DBS, due to insufficient data.
The authors of this systematic review, led by Dr. of UMass Memorial Medical Center, noted that the authors considered it important that their results be shared widely so that other clinicians can incorporate them into their practices.
The authors concluded that their results can be summarized as demonstrating that the benefits of home health post-operative (HPO) DBS are modest. In terms of depression-related outcomes, the authors noted that their results provide evidence for a positive effect of DBS on depression symptoms. The findings are also consistent with previous research suggesting that patients who were treated postoperatively with DBS had a longer period of time with depression and more mood-stabilizing medications.
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The past couple of weeks have been a fun whirlwind. I have just returned from an awesome trip to Japan. We went to the Nippon Budokan, the most famous Budokan in Japan, and the most famous anime convention in the world. The Nippon Budokan is an open outdoor Japanese convention that is literally right next to the New York Times building. This event is a must for anime fans and anime fans in general — I was fortunate enough to go to two of the most famous events, the first being the “Astro” convention. The “Astro” convention is the world’s largest anime convention, and it was the first anime convention I ever went to.
One of the things I like about going to the Nippon Budokan is that you can see Japanese anime like nothing else I’ve ever seen in person. I’m quite the fan of Japanese anime — I just want to see Japanese anime the same way I see Japanese people. There are so many different anime shows and movies that I want to watch it all.
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