Blog: The Brain Dialogues, filtered by tag: Deep brain stimulation
What's New in Alzheimer's? Pacing the Brain
PROFESSOR PERMINDER SACHDEV, MD, PhD
As a clinician, I regularly advise my patients with memory problems to keep mentally and socially active; “keep stimulating your brain” is the message. There could be a new twist to the notion of brain stimulation if some of the current research proves to be beneficial. The National Institute of Health in the United States recently funded a study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s.
DBS is not a new technique, and it is regularly used to treat Parkinson’s disease and some other movement disorders. It involves the placement of… Read More