New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease

New Way To Treat Parkinson's Disease.
Deep thought stimulation might staff improve the driving ability of people with Parkinson's disease, a new German ponder suggests. A deep brain stimulator is an implanted device that sends electrical impulses to the brain. With patients who have epilepsy, the stimulator is believed to farther down the risk of seizures, the researchers said. A driving simulator tested the abilities of 23 Parkinson's patients with a acute wit stimulator, 21 patients without the device and a control group of 21 people without Parkinson's.

The patients with perspicacity stimulators were tested three times: once with the device on, once with the device off and once with the stimulator off after they took the Parkinson's downer levodopa. The Parkinson's patients without stimulators performed worse in every driving grouping except one. The patients with stimulators did not perform significantly worse than commoners in the control group in any category, and even did better in the category of slight driving errors.

Patients with stimulators averaged 3,8 bantam driving errors, compared to 11,4 errors for patients without stimulators and 7,5 errors for salutary controls, according to the study, which was published online in the Dec 18, 2013 issue of the minutes Neurology. Parkinson's patients with stimulators made 11 driving errors when their stimulator was on, 13 errors when it was off and they took levodopa, and 14 errors when their stimulator was off and they did not rob the medication click this link. "Until now, we weren't unshakeable how deep brain stimulation would affect driving," study architect Dr Carsten Buhmann, of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Germany, said in a daily news release.