1. Overview of Brain pacemaker
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Sanjay Bhaumik
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Parkinson's disease ,Movement disorders ,Deep brain stimulation ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Brain pacemaker ,Stimulation ,Stimulus (physiology) ,medicine.disease ,Anesthesia ,Basal ganglia ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Adverse effect ,Neuroscience - Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS)/Brain pacemaker has evolved as an important and established treatment modality for variety of advanced movement disorders and also for some psychiatry disorders. 1 Chronic DBS stimulation provides a non destructive and reversible means of disturbing the abnormal function of basal ganglia circuit. It can be adjusted as disease progresses or adverse event occur. Bilateral stimulation can be performed without a significant increase in adverse effects. Adverse events related to unintended stimulation of adjacent structures are readily reversible by altering the stimulus parameters.
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- 2013
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