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---------- > Fra: Heather Elizabeth Baird <[log in to unmask]> > Til: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> > Emne: Re: brain pacemaker > Dato: 23. juli 1997 04:50 > > Here is an article from Medtronic: > 1. A hole is drilled through the skull and an electrode is > implanted into the thalamus, a walnet sized region that controls > movement. > 2. A wire runs under the scalp, down to the collarbone, where a > pulse generator is implanted. > 3. The generator sends constant tiny electrical shocks to the > thalamus. Brain signals that cause tremor are blocked or > overridden. > 4. The patient can program the generator by an external unit and > turn it on and off by running a magnet over the chest. > > The operation to install the device takes 5 hours and costs > $25,000 > > Shakes disappear for half the users. > > [log in to unmask] *** Hello Billy, this surgery - DEEP BRAIN EL-STIMULATION - has taken place in Aarhus Denmark for about a year, one of my good pwp friends got it last year. Until now about 12 pwp and as far as I know 1 with essentil tremor. ALL - 1 with PD it means 11 pwp has stopped shaking and only 1 wasn`t succesful. The surgery costs about 50.000 Danish crowns I`m told maybe a little more (1000 d. crown = 675 US dollar). Sonia N Denmark NEVER GIVE UP