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Pacemaker For Dystonia from Antonio DeSalles, MD

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Views: 882 | Comments: 1

From: Antonio DeSalles, MD

Category: Neurologic Disease

Added: Sep 04, 2008

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Dr Antonio DeSalles, a neurosurgeon at UCLA, discusses dystonia, and the treatment with a special pacemaker. Dystonia is a condition which causes the brain to fire abnormally, sending impulses of electricity to muscles that cause them to contract constantly. A new device, which is a pacemaker with the lead of the pacemaker in the brain, can stop these impulses.

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homestead33 (Sep 05, 2008)

I had never even heard of this. But it is so obvious seeing the girl in the video how much she was helped. It is an amazing story.

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