What Is a Brain Pacemakers? How Pacemakers Treat Parkinson’s Disease?

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A brain pacemaker is a medical device implanted into the brain to stimulate the nervous tissues with electric signals. These pacemakers are being used widely to provide treatment to the patients having neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and others. Other than giving stimulation to the brain, pacemakers also play an essential role in stimulating the spinal cord. Brain pacemakers have been found to offer a safe and effective procedure that provides symptomatic relief to patients. Doctor puts the pacemaker under the skin on your chest, just under your collarbone. It’s hooked up to your heart with tiny wires.

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Doctors know that deep brain stimulation works as a therapy for Parkinson’s disease. But they’re still trying to figure out why and how. A new study sheds some light on the mechanism of action, suggesting that deep brain stimulation disrupts a pattern of excessively synchronized activity in the brain. In DBS, an implanted device sends tiny jolts of electricity through neurons, acting somewhat like a brain pacemaker. The technique is widely accepted as a treatment for Parkinson’s and other movement disorders; more than 100,000 patients have received implants that help control their tremors, rigidity, and other kinetic symptoms.

How does Pacemakers work?
• A pacemaker uses batteries to send electric signals to your heart to help it pump the right way.
• The pacemaker is connected to your heart by one or more wires. Tiny electric charges that you can’t feel move through the wire to your heart.
• Pacemakers work only when needed. They go on when your heartbeat is too slow, too fast or irregular.

The Brain Pacemaker has already revolutionized the treatment of movement disorders and in the future will completely alter the management of other disabling conditions. Our AIMS are to learn exactly how electrical stimulation normalizes brain function, to develop better technology for the device and other neural prosthetics, test these systems for new conditions, and thus improve patient’s quality of life.

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