At 11:15 AM 12/31/97 EST, you wrote:
>About this time last year, I was conversing with Dr. Lozano in Toronto. I sent
>him a copy of my MRI film taken in July of '96. He said that a correctly
>placed lesion in the thalamus might help me. I was puzzled by this, as I knew
>that Thalamatomies are mainly used for tremor - of which I have none. My
>biggest problem is dystonia.
>I wrote him back with my concerns, to which he replied it all has to do with
>the placement of the lesion. He said that a correctly placed lesion in my
>thalamus could provide me some relief from the dystonia.
>Since then, I have done a lot of reading, and I have found out that something
>like 85% of the output from the globus pallidus (the ONLY part of my brain
>that was injured by the CO poisoning) goes to the thalamus.
>If I am correct, a thalamatomy would help balance out the signals. In other
>words, the thalamus is busy trying to receive the signals that aren't coming
>from the pallidus, therefore causing the severe dystonia.
>A local hospital is going to begin doing stereotactic operations soon. So I
>would not have to go any further than 20 miles.
>Any thoughts on the logic behind my thinking would be appreciated.
>
>Jacob
> Go to the best Doctor available, don't be a "starter" for a
program..If Dr. Lozano is the man, go for it..Regards, Gorodn Seese
Gordon had thalomoties for tremor at the Oregon Medical School.
