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Better understanding of brain
metabolism After being treated with the socalled in —
depth brain electric stimulation therapy at Shanghai Ruijin
Hospital, a 28 — year — old female patient of
Parkinson s disease was freed from the symptoms and able to
work normally. The young lady got pregnant after
the termination of the therapy and gave the birth to a
healthy baby boy in last June. It is reported that the young
lady is the only patient of advanced Parkinsonism who got
recovered after the operation and gave the birth to the baby
in the world.
So far the Hospital has
successfully made 100 and more Parkinson patients at
intermediate or advanced stage recovered under the in
— depth brain electric stimulation therapy. In the
meanwhile, they have, in collaboration with Positron
Sectional Scanning Center of Huashan Hospital, compared the
variations of patients' cerebral glucose metabolism before
and after the treatment and concluded that deep brain
stimulation is able to make the patient free from the
disease symptoms by increasing metabolism in the black
striatum area of the brain and thus enhancing the functions
of neuron of substantial niagra. It is also found that such
increased local metabolic activity may protect nerve cells
and slow down the advance of Parkinson s diseases.
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