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I believe the posting from Emery Josserand Oct. 6 will serve to give you additional information on pallidal brain stimulation procedure which you requested. The subject heading on Josserand's message is "Breaking News" if you should desire to call up his post from the archives. The operation was performed at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the news story quoted by Josserand was originally released by the office of University Relations. If you are unable to obtain the text from the archives, I would be glad to forward a copy from my file. Lee A. Lee Belcher / [log in to unmask] On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, Lisa Carper wrote: > Following is an article that appears in this morning's Pittsburgh Post > Gazette Newspaper: > > IMPLANT HELPS STOP THE TREMORS OF PARKINSON'S > Kansas City, Kansas (AP) - A 48-year old Parkinson's sufferer is believed > to be the first patient in this country to be implanted with an electronic > device designed to thwart the tremors, rigidity and other symptons. > During the eight-hour operation Thursday at the University of Kansas Medical > Center, surgeons placed a pulse generator the size of a half-dollar in Gary > Shikles' chest. Attached to the device is a wire threaded under the skin of > his neck and into a region of the brain called the globus pallidus. > Hospital spokesman Randy Attwood said it was the first such implant - called > a pallidal stimulation procedure - in the United States. > The surgery has been performed in Europe since the 1980's, according to Judy > Rosner, director of the United Parkinson Foundation in Chicago. > Parkinson's is a progressive, degenerative disease of unknown origin that > kills off dopamine producing neurons. A low supply of dopamine triggers > overactivity in the globus pallidus. > > Anyone hear, see or know of anything else on this? > Lisa Carper > -- >