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(Message started by: bobkip on Mar 7^th, 2004, 11:21pm)

Title: New research. Hope for the (distant) future.
Post by bobkip on Mar 7^th, 2004, 11:21pm

This is an excerpt from an article in the March 7, 2004 Palm Beach Post.

Headline;
Scientists experimenting with 'brain pacemakers'.

Para 1;
A handful of scientists around the world have begun cautiously experimentting with devices implanted in patients' bodies to deliver precisely targeted electrical stimulation to the brain in hopes of treating otherwise hopeless behavioral, neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Brain pacemakers are already widely used to treat Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, and now several neurological centers have been trying them to relieve several forms of previously untreatable pain, including rare but excruciaating "cluster headaches."
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Damn, sure wish it had said where these centers were.

Kip

Title: Re: New research. Hope for the (distant) future.
Post by Mr.YL on Mar 8^th, 2004, 12:54am

Hmmmm...wonder if it could work on behavior modification....?
JUST IMAGINE THE USES

Title: Re: New research. Hope for the (distant) future.
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 8^th, 2004, 4:39pm

Kip there's one in Houston that's been doing research on those things for a number of years. There's one with a magnet - when you feel it coming on, you rub the magnet over the implant and it sends a stimilus to the brain and stops the impulse -- or something like that.

I had a distant cousin have one implanted for epilepsy (probably misspelled) and it's worked wonders on him - has had a seizure since it was put in.

Since we take drugs that were earmarked for epilepsy, it makes sense that it could work for Clusters. I was going to call them back in 99, but found Topamax and since it worked, I just didn't do it.

But it makes sense... I'll try to find out where they're doing it and you can be our CH ginny pig.

Hugs BD