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[log in to unmask] Hi Wendy, I am reposting info on research also going on in Kansas City fyi. Information from the Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 1995 There is a new pilot procedure called "pallidal brain stimulation" being performed by the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Neurology and the Department of Neurosurgery. A half-dollar-size electronic pulse generator is implanted into the chest. From this device a thin wire electrode is run under the skin of the neck and up deep into the center of the brain to the region called globus pallidus, The patient can turn on the pulse generator by placing a magnet on the skin above the device, sending an electric current to the brain, jamming nerve signals from the globus pallidus. This procedure is reversible. In the local PD newsletter for Spring 1996 it is reported by Dr. Willima Koller that five cases of pallidal stimulation have been performed with good results to date. Barbara Blake-Krebs [log in to unmask]