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Controlling Parkinson's Disease With Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) has the potential to improve the treatment of Parkinson&#39;s disease by optimizing stimulation in real time ...

UCL Institute of Neurology

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could potentially be used to interact with pathological brain signals to intervene and ameliorate their effects in disease states. Here, we provide proof-of-principle of this approach by using a BCI to interpret pathological brain activity in patients with advanced Parkinson disease (PD) and to use this feedback to control when therapeutic deep brain stimulation (DBS) is delivered. Our goal was to demonstrate that by personalizing and optimizing stimulation in real time, we could improve on both the efficacy and efficiency of conventional continuous DBS.

Adaptive deep brain stimulation in advanced Parkinson disease.

Cancer, one of the world's leading causes of death today, remains almost absent relative to other pathological conditions, in the archaeological record, giving rise to the conclusion that the disease is mainly a product of modern living and increased longevity. This paper presents a male, young-adult individual from the archaeological site of Amara West in northern Sudan (c. 1200 BC) displaying multiple, mainly osteolytic, lesions on the vertebrae, ribs, sternum, clavicles, scapulae, pelvis, and humeral and femoral heads. Following radiographic, microscopic and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) imaging of the lesions, and a consideration of differential diagnoses, a diagnosis of metastatic carcinoma secondary to an unknown soft tissue cancer is suggested. This represents the earliest complete example in the world of a human who suffered metastatic cancer to date. The study further draws its strength from modern analytical techniques applied to differential diagnoses and the fact that it is firmly rooted within a well-documented archaeological and historical context, thus providing new insights into the history and antiquity of the disease as well as its underlying causes and progression.

Spencer Neal

Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders,
Unit of Functional Neurosurgery,
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery

UCL Institute of Neurology

Controlling Parkinson's Disease With Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

Spencer Neal

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UCL Institute of Neurology

Controlling Parkinson's Disease With Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders,
Unit of Functional Neurosurgery,
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery