Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Parkinson’s disease affects 1 million Americans. New research from the labs of UCSF neurologist Simon Little, MBBS, PhD, and neurosurgeon Philip Starr, MD, PhD, have successfully tested new adaptive deep brain stimulation technology that tunes into a patient’s brain signals and adjusts therapy as their Parkinson’s symptoms rise and fall.

Little explains why patients in trials found it works better than the currently available DBS treatment.

Learn more about how this research changed one patients life:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/04/427391/new-parkinsons-treatment-helps-former-pro-keep-skateboarding


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