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A 5 page paper that explains what deep brain stimulation is, how the procedure is performed, on whom it is performed, the difference in treatment of Parkinson's and dystonia patients and early results. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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"sectioned one of the neck muscles" (Bajwa, Walter and Vitek, n.d.). At that time in history, doctors would destroy the portion of the brain they thought was causing certain problems,
such as dystonia, and, as might be expected, the results for the patient were sometimes good and sometimes not (Bajwa, Walter and Vitek, n.d.). Of course, technology at the time
was basic and did not provide scientists the types of opportunities they have today in diagnosing (Bajwa, Walter and Vitek, n.d.). Song (2006) comments that psychosurgery has advanced greatly
since its beginnings. The reputation and credibility of brain surgeries was greatly tarnished in the 1940s and 1950s with the practice of lobotomies, which did significant damage to patients (Song,
2006). Lobotomies were performed for all kinds of conditions from mental retardation to severe psychotic disorders. The early procedures were not based on sound cognitive and knowledge of the
brain, the sections of the brain, and the causes of disorders and diseases. They can only be described as hit-and-miss. They were inhumane, at best, and incredibly cruel at worst.
Todays procedures are far more humanistic and they are based on greater knowledge acquired with new advances in medical technology. Deep brain stimulation is an example of advanced procedures for
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This author reports that it "evolved out of the so-called ablative, or
lesioning, surgeries in which doctors use heat probes to burn and permanently damage small regions of the brain" (Song, 2006). Doctors burned the areas that have been shown to cause
quakes and tremors in Parkinsons (Song, 2006). The deep brain stimulation that emerged or evolved from the procedures in the late 1980s and 1990s is different. It is like
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