Carole, I will follow this new development with interest. Wouldn't it be
great if electric shock treatments could actually cause better functioning
of the remaining dopamine producing cells in the brains of pwp? Do any
list members know if similar treatments have been researched and tested in
the US?
Jeanette Fuhr 49/47/44?
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From: Carole Hercun <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Electic Shock Treatment
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:35 PM
Something I haven't heard of before from the pduk List.
Carole
--- Martin Purchase <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The following article appeared in Scotland on Sunday
> 9-1-00
>
> Electric shock treatment helps Parkinson’s sufferers to
> walk
>
>
> By Tom Peterkin
>
> SCIENTISTS have developed a revolutionary treatment for
> Parkinson’s disease
> using magnetic energy to stimulate the brain.
>
> It is thought that the pulses stimulate the brain cells
> affected by
> Parkinson’s.
Professor Stone of Glasglow University and his colleague Dr. Judit Mally of
Hungary have finished a study for the Journal of Neuroscience Research with
300 patients and said in part:
>
> Mally explained: "Patients with Parkinson’s have an
> obstruction in the
> brain, which stops them from starting a movement. The
> patient thinks he
> wants to start walking, for example, but the obstruction
> prevents him from
> doing so. The performance of the movement is very
> difficult. Somehow the
> pulses overcome this obstruction."
>
> She added: "We have found that the effectiveness of the
> treatment depends
> on the frequency and the intensity of the electromagnetic
> field and the
> direction of the treatment is also very important. This
> is a very new way
> of treating patients with electricity and it is exciting
> that it appears to
> be so successful."
>
> Stone added: "It is this inability to move that patients
> find most
> distressing, but if we give them just a little treatment
> then they find
> they can keep walking.
>
> "The magnetic field stimulates fibres in the brain and
> causes them to start
> talking to each other, which they cease doing when
> somebody has
> Parkinson’s."
>
> Stone and Mally are hopeful that their method will prove
> to be more
> successful and less harmful than existing drug therapies,
> which lead to
> unpleasant side effects such as confusion, hallucinations
> and fluctuations
> in long-term ability to perform movements.
>
> At the moment there is still no known cure for the
> disease, but drug
> treatments result in improvements in the condition in the
> short term.
>
>
>
>
>
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