Pacemaker in the Brain to Combat Alzheimer’s
Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:08
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins are holding a pioneering experiment in the United States to combat the disease of Alzheimer . A first pacemaker implant in the brain of a patient at an early stage of the disease. The idea: Try to stimulate memory and get reverse deterioration.
This is the first event of its kind in the United States. Operation was based on the same technology used in heart pacemakers which Generate the idea of stimulating the brain.
A first surgery performed with the patient Barbara Abrahams, whose deterioration has accelerated dramatically in the last nine years. According to Peter Abrahams, son of Barbara:
