Should Highly-Skilled Parkinson’s Disease Patients Undergo Deep Brain Stimulation or Thalamotomy?
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a resting tremor combined with varying degrees of rigidity and bradykinesia. Introduced in the 1950s, thalamotomy is used as a surgical procedure to improve brain function in patients and serves as an effective treatment metho...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2052 https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3104&context=cmc_theses |