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When pills fail, electrical implants can mend brains damaged by Parkinson's
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"Mickey Lawson's brain is talking. The 63-year-old picture framer from Lawrenceville, Ga., is strapped to a surgical table in operating room 15 at Emory University Hospital. He is also trapped in the rigid embrace of Parkinson's disease, which in the past decade has robbed him of speech and muscle control. Yet his brain is quite lively, and in the OR this afternoon in late January, everyone can hear it.
A loud popping begins echoing from a speaker. 'You can hear it's pretty active,' says neurosurgeon Robert Gross. He is gingerly guiding an electrode--a wire only a few millionths of an inch thick--into Lawson's brain through a nickel-size hole in his skull......"
"Mickey Lawson's brain is talking. The 63-year-old picture framer from Lawrenceville, Ga., is strapped to a surgical table in operating room 15 at Emory University Hospital. He is also trapped in the rigid embrace of Parkinson's disease, which in the past decade has robbed him of speech and muscle control. Yet his brain is quite lively, and in the OR this afternoon in late January, everyone can hear it.
A loud popping begins echoing from a speaker. 'You can hear it's pretty active,' says neurosurgeon Robert Gross. He is gingerly guiding an electrode--a wire only a few millionths of an inch thick--into Lawson's brain through a nickel-size hole in his skull......"