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Old 07-21-2015, 06:12 PM #1
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This article is dated 2012. Since then, UVA has been working on a trial for PD using this focused ultrasound. There are threads on this site about that work.

I don't know what to think of this approach-it involves a permanent severing of a nerve in the brain. If you had this procedure and it worked, great....but if not?
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Lesioning/ablation was done before DBS was invented. The use of ultrasound in this application appears to still selectively damage tissue and may reduce tremors for awhile. So it seems to be a new way to burn/lesion tissue. I'm not sure if that works in the long term though.
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