{"id":11495,"date":"2024-08-19T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:23:58","slug":"a-personalized-brain-pacemaker-for-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11495","title":{"rendered":"A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Shawn Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease nine years ago, he was a 39-year-old daredevil on a skateboard<\/a>, flipping and leaping from walls, benches and dumpsters through the streets of San Francisco. He appeared in videos<\/a> and magazines, and had sponsorships from skateboard makers and shops.<\/p>\n

But gradually, he began to notice that \u201cthings weren\u2019t really working right\u201d with his body. He found that his right hand was cupping, and he began cradling his arm to hold it in place. His balance and alignment started to seem off.<\/p>\n

Over time, he developed a common Parkinson\u2019s pattern, fluctuating between periods of rapid involuntary movements like \u201cI\u2019ve got ants in my pants\u201d and periods of calcified slowness when, he said, \u201cI could barely move.\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, Mr. Connolly volunteered for an experiment that summoned his daring and determination in a different way. He became a participant in a study exploring an innovative approach to deep brain stimulation.<\/p>\n

In the study<\/a>, which was published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers transformed deep brain stimulation \u2014 an established treatment for Parkinson\u2019s \u2014 into a personalized therapy<\/a> that tailored the amount of electrical stimulation to each patient\u2019s individual symptoms.<\/p>\n

The researchers found that for Mr. Connolly and the three other participants, the individualized approach, called adaptive deep brain stimulation, cut in half the time they experienced their most bothersome symptom.<\/p>\n

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When Shawn Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease nine years ago, he was a 39-year-old daredevil on a skateboard, flipping and leaping from walls, benches and dumpsters through the streets of San Francisco. He appeared in videos and magazines, and had sponsorships from skateboard makers and shops.But gradually, he began to notice that \u201cthings weren\u2019t really working right\u201d with his body. He found that his right hand was cupping, and he began cradling his arm to hold it in place. His balance and alignment started to seem off.Over time, he developed a common Parkinson\u2019s pattern, fluctuating between periods of rapid involuntary movements like \u201cI\u2019ve got ants in my pants\u201d and periods of calcified slowness when, he said, \u201cI could barely move.\u201dA couple of years ago, Mr. Connolly volunteered for an experiment that summoned his daring and determination in a different way. He became a participant in a study exploring an innovative approach to deep brain stimulation.In the study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers transformed deep brain stimulation \u2014 an established treatment for Parkinson\u2019s \u2014 into a personalized therapy that tailored the amount of electrical stimulation to each patient\u2019s individual symptoms.The researchers found that for Mr. Connolly and the three other participants, the individualized approach, called adaptive deep brain stimulation, cut in half the time they experienced their most bothersome symptom.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11497,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}