Spinal Cord Stimulation Brings New Hope For Parkinson’s Patients

Researchers in the US found that when they electrically stimulated the spinal cord of mice and rats that had depleted levels of dopamine, the chemical that is lacking in the brains of people with Parkinson’s, their slow, stiff movements were replaced with the behaviours of healthy animals. They hope one day to offer the same benefits to Parkinson’s patients by developing a small spinal cord stimulator that is implanted under the skin.

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Filed under: Parkinson's Disease on March 31st, 2009