I am curious about methodology here.  Did the control group also lay
down on tables with cathodes attached? Could be that the calming
effect three "treatments" per day provided the benefit, not the micro
current.
Reminds me somewhat of the Rife machine someone mentioned the other
day on another PD list I belong to.

>Parkinson's Disease May Be Treated By Electric Current
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>  Article Date: 25 Mar 2006 - 0:00am (UK)
>
>A simple and efficient method that facilitates Parkinson's disease treatment
>has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Human Brain, Russian
>Academy of Sciences. Influence of feeble electric current on the brain via
>electrodes laid on the head skin - the so-called transcranial electric
>polarization (TCEP) - reduces muscle tone and partially restores patients'
>movements. In combination with antiparkinsonian drug intake, TCEP reduces
>their side effect.

edited here for brevity


>  Transcranial electric polarization may become one of such remedies, according
>to the opinion of researchers from the Institute of Human Brain, Russian
>Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The experimental group involved 110
>patients with stages of Parkinson's disease from 1 to 4, 80 patients were
>included in the main group where TCEP was applied, and the remaining 30 made
>the reference group and received only drugs. The patients from the main group
>did not give up the drugs either but in addition they received three to four
>sessions of electric therapy every other day. Continuous current of 2
>milliampere acted for 15 minutes via cathode and anode on the head skin. The
>patients' state was assessed judging by intensity of main symptoms - movement
>rate, muscle tone and tremor - prior to the sessions and after them.
>
>  According to physicians' observations, TCEP application resulted in reduction
>of reduntant muscle tone, increase in movement rate and also decrease of
>drug's side effects. The only thing TCEP had no influence on was tremor.
>Nevertheless, these are considerable results. Effectiveness of procedure
>influence on movements and muscle tone varied from 100 to 63.3 percent
>depending on the stage of disease. The TCEP session effect remained for half
>a year to a year.
>

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Stephen Rack
Brattleboro, VT

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