Brain implant surgeries at UCSF dramatically improve symptoms of debilitating condition

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 13:40 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...

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