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Brain stimulation offers relief from Parkinson's As the family of St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck has learned, people with Parkinson's disease now have another option for alleviating the disorder's debilitating symptoms. Neurological surgeons in the School of Medicine and
Barnes-Jewish Hospital are using a relatively new method
of deep brain stimulation to disrupt the signals that
cause some of Parkinson's most aggravating symptoms, including
tremor, slowness of movement, stiffness and difficulty
walking. The implanted device delivers continuous, high
frequency electrical impulses to the brain. Buck had this
device surgically implanted into both sides of his brain
March 19 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital South. Full story
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Researchers have for the first time used a blood test to identify Alzheimer's-type changes in living mice. The test, developed by researchers in the School of Medicine and Eli Lilly and Co., predicts the amount of amyloid plaque in an animal's brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. To date, the only way to definitively diagnose this disease in humans is by examining a person's brain after death. Full story Liposuction's impact on type 2 diabetes examined in study
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