http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/ Engadget Comments for European Parkinson's patients receive first Libra DBS implants to help alleviate symptoms http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Anything must be better than diskinesia interspersed with near paralysis.
Patients I met had their brains cauterised which is destructive and non-reversable but a couple of years of more normal life was considered preferable to many.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 2nd 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/
Completely agreed!!


However one of the major problems with this approach it doesn't take into account the massively progressive nature of this disease (at least not autonomously). This is essentially the digital equivalent of medicine and the shelf life of treating a symptom isn't that great. The amount in which this device "controls" the symptoms has to be reprogrammed overtime. If this device were coupled with say a brain gate technology to monitor current symptom levels and actively adjusted then we'd have a winner. Alas i'm too busy and not smart enough to do it myself.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Not that you can blame anybody (I hope), medical science just isn't that advanced really, it's mechanical fixes and a lot of stabbing in the dark and hoping, without knowing.
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This way you could recharge the battery through the skin and don't have to go in for surgery.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/european-parkinsons-patients-receive-first-libra-dbs-implants-t/Apr 29th 2009 1:19PM