People living with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and essential tremors have to deal with uncontrollable shaking that can make it hard to do something as simple as drink from a cup.
Some patients have had success treating their condition with neurostimulators — devices implanted in the brain during a procedure called deep brain stimulation surgery. The result is something like a pacemaker for the brain.
New research suggests that treatment could also be used to treat seizures in some people with epilepsy.
Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Cheryl Sansone, who teaches chemistry and biology at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, Illinois. She had the surgery in 2015 and describes it as “life-changing.”
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