Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Focus on Healthy Aging (FHA)
Volume 27 • Number 6 • June 2024
Advanced Parkinson’s Disease May Respond to Deep Brain Stimulation
Many people with Parkinson’s disease find that medications and exercise help control the symptoms that accompany this neurological condition. But as Parkinson’s progresses, these treatment approaches don’t work as well, and severe functional limitations may develop. For the past two decades, a technique called deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been …
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