Brain implant surgeries dramatically improve symptoms of debilitating condition
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia a rare but extremely debilitating condition that causes painful, twisting neck muscle spasms according to the results of a pilot study led by Jill Ostrem, MD and Philip Starr, MD PhD at the University of California, San Francisco.