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In article Phil Tompkins <[log in to unmask]> writes: >While the unit is used primarily against tumors, the article >mentions that "neurosurgeons experienced in stereotactic radiosurgery >are cautiously beginning to extend its use: to quell intractable >facial pain in patients with trigeminal neuralgia, to relieve >chronic cancer pain, to obliterate abnormal areas of brain tissue >that give rise to uncontrollable epileptic seizures and to treat >psychoneurosis, Parkinson's disease, and other movement disorders." >Nothing further is mentioned about Parkinson's disease or where >or by whom surgery for it has been performed. >Phil Check out the Proton Beam Therapy at which they say is superior to the gamma knife: http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/pbm-shpg.htm John Cottingham "KNOWLEDGE is of two kinds: we know [log in to unmask] a subject, or we know where we can OR find information upon it." [log in to unmask] Dr. Samuel Johnson