Stanford Study Improves Insights Into Parkinson’s Disease And Possible Treatments

Medical News Today, Article Date: 22 Mar 2009 – 1:00 PDT

In the new study, which will also appear in an upcoming print issue of Science, the medical and engineering researchers found that by far the biggest effect in “Parkinsonian” rodents occurs not by stimulating cells in the subthalamic nucleus, but by stimulating the neural wires, called axons, that connect directly to it from areas closer to the surface of the brain.

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