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Here we focus on the surgical options available to patients with Parkinson’s who are considering getting one of the advanced therapies. We list the advantages and disadvantages of each and try to explain how none are a one size fits all solution to the many problems these diseases present. We end by talking about why we chose DBS for Ben.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
– Randy Pausch (Randy Pausch. ‘The Last Lecture’. Hyperion, April 8, 2008)
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Scientific evidence in medicine is indicated by 4 classes indicating its strength, being class I the highest level.
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‘Number of People Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Increases to Nearly 90,000 Each Year’ (https://www.parkinson.org/blog/research/incidence-2022)
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Stecher, B., Fasano, A. (2024). The Cards We Are Dealt. In: Reprogramming the Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50399-3_5
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