Many are afflicted with tremor, the involuntary shaking that goes with a number of CNS disorders..looks like they may have made a breakthrough:
A cutting-edge brain surgery for tremor, without the cutting - The Boston Globe
Surgeons are using focused ultrasound waves to treat essential tremor. It might help people with Parkinson’s, brain cancer, and even ALS.
By Mark Kramer,Updated November 27, 2019, 11:28 a.m.
Dr. Rees Cosgrove and some of his team during a noninvasive focused ultrasound procedure at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The thalamus is the white circle in the center of Cosgrove’s screen.Webb Chappell
Lou Pandolfe looks at his freshly shaved scalp in a mirror and smiles ruefully at the unfamiliar reflection smiling back. The previous evening, he and his wife, Christine, drove up to Boston from their home in West Hartford, Connecticut, for pre-op preceding a new type of brain surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Tomorrow, Pandolfe will turn 77. He and Christine hope a successful surgery will be his birthday gift.
I recommend the article..a good, informative read.
A cutting-edge brain surgery for tremor, without the cutting - The Boston Globe
Surgeons are using focused ultrasound waves to treat essential tremor. It might help people with Parkinson’s, brain cancer, and even ALS.
By Mark Kramer,Updated November 27, 2019, 11:28 a.m.
Dr. Rees Cosgrove and some of his team during a noninvasive focused ultrasound procedure at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The thalamus is the white circle in the center of Cosgrove’s screen.Webb Chappell
Lou Pandolfe looks at his freshly shaved scalp in a mirror and smiles ruefully at the unfamiliar reflection smiling back. The previous evening, he and his wife, Christine, drove up to Boston from their home in West Hartford, Connecticut, for pre-op preceding a new type of brain surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Tomorrow, Pandolfe will turn 77. He and Christine hope a successful surgery will be his birthday gift.
I recommend the article..a good, informative read.
