USNews.com: When pills fail, electrical implants can mend brains damaged by Parkinson's, stroke, and even depression: "Fixing Your Brain
When pills fail, electrical implants can mend brains damaged by Parkinson's, stroke, and depression
By Josh E. Fischman
2/20/06
ATLANTA--Mickey Lawson's brain is talking. The 63-year-old picture framer from Lawrenceville, Ga., is strapped to a surgical table in operating room 15 at Emory University Hospital. He is also trapped in the rigid embrace of Parkinson's disease, which in the past decade has robbed him of speech and muscle control. Yet his brain is quite lively, and in the OR this afternoon in late January, everyone can hear it."
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