Lindley: A Complex Medical History

Lindley: A Complex Medical History

An effective Parkinson disease treatment has complicated origins, Robin Lindley writes for History News Network. Robin (@robinlindley2) talks with Lone Frank, author of The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor about how the...

Sharpe: Brain Deep

An effective Parkinson’s therapy, writes Elizabeth Sharpe, involves installing electrodes, wires, and a battery in a patient’s head and chest. Sounds drastic, but in UW Health Sciences NewsBeat, Elizabeth (@ebsharpe) writes that deep brain stimulation works for some...