Brain PM Implanted

Surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center implanted the first brain pacemaker to treat Alzheimer’s last October, according to a university news release. Surgeons operated on Kathy Sanford, who became the first Alzheimer’s patient in the U.S. to have a pacemaker implanted in her brain.

Sanford is the first of as many as 10 patients who will be signed up for a study at Wexner Medical Center to decide if using a brain pacemaker can better cognitive and behavioral functioning in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers hope to determine whether deep brain stimulation (DBS), the same technology used to successfully help approximately 100,000 patients worldwide with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, could improve function administered by the frontal lobe and neural networks involved in cognition and behavior by stimulating certain areas of the brain with a pacemaker.

Full story here:

http://natmonitor.com/2013/01/22/surgeons-implant-first-brain-pacemaker-to-treat-alzheimers/

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As for my pacemaker (almost 7 years old) I like to think of it in the terms of the old Timex commercial - takes a licking and keeps on ticking.