Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases - Hardcover

9781932594379: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases
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Deep brain stimulation opens a new horizon of therapies for many of the chronic brain ailments that trouble humanity. Gifted science writer Jamie Talan takes us through the cautionary tale of its evolution, while showcasing the promise and pitfalls of modern medical technology. Dr. Mehmet Oz, author of "YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger" --Dr. Mehmet Oz" Jamie Talan puts her award-winning science writing skills to good use in telling the fascinating story of deep brain stimulation and the hope that offers in treating maladies of mind and brain. Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain" and "Synaptic Self" --Joseph LeDoux" "Deep brain stimulation opens a new horizon of therapies for many of the chronic brain ailments that trouble humanity. Gifted science writer Jamie Talan takes us through the cautionary tale of its evolution, while showcasing the promise and pitfalls of modern medical technology." --Dr. Mehmet Oz, author of "YOU: The Owner''s Manual: An Insider''s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger" --Dr. Mehmet Oz "Jamie Talan puts her award-winning science writing skills to good use in telling the fascinating story of deep brain stimulation and the hope that offers in treating maladies of mind and brain."--Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain" and "Synaptic Self" --Joseph LeDoux
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A surprising number of disorders defy treatment with prescribed pharmaceuticals: a man's hands shake so hard that he cannot hold anything; a woman is mired in severe, inescapable depression; or a child falls into severe epileptic seizures. For these patients and others, an alternative treatment is emerging for when pharmaceuticals fail: deep brain stimulation. More than 30,000 people worldwide undergo this treatment each year, and with this volume, Jamie Talan and Richard Firstman explain this cutting-edge medical development that may hold the key to unlocking some of medicine's most bewildering mysteries.Deep brain stimulation primarily consists of implanting electrodes in the brain that are connected to a device similar to a pacemaker. Talan and Firstman describe the ways in which deep brain stimulation has produced promising results in the treatment of numerous diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and Tourette's syndrome. The book also features compelling profiles of patients who have been helped through the treatment, including a trauma patient, once barely conscious, who can now talk, walk, and eat on his own; and a young man whose obsessive-compulsive disorder had left him housebound, but who is now married and holding a steady job. In addition, the authors introduce us to the doctors and scientists who pursue their pioneering research and outline the possibilities that their most recent work holds for treating Alzheimer's and for stroke rehabilitation - as well as the ethical issues that have arisen in the course of their work.A fascinating and timely investigation, "Deep Brain Stimulation" reveals the exciting possibilities for restoring a richer life to the sufferers of diseases long thought to be incurable.

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  • VerlagUniversity of Chicago Press
  • Erscheinungsdatum2009
  • ISBN 10 193259437X
  • ISBN 13 9781932594379
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