DALLAS- Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have just recently developed MRI techniques utilized to more exactly target a small location in the brain connected to Parkinson’s disease and necessary tremor. This may cause much better results without surgery and with less threat of negative effects of treatment of tremblings and Parkinson’s illness.
The study have been published in the journal Brain
The research explains just recently improved MRI techniques developed to permit neuroradiologists to zero in on a pea-sized region in the brain’s thalamus involved in motion. Using the images, physicians then can use high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to ablate, or burn away, issue tissue, says Bhavya R. Shah, M.D., very first author of the research study and an assistant professor of radiology and neurological surgery at UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute.
” The advantage for patients is that we will be better able to target the brain structures that we want,” Shah states. “And due to the fact that we’re not striking the wrong target, we’ll have less negative effects.” The procedures are currently Food and Drug Administration-approved for use in clients, and UTSW prepares to begin employing them to deal with clients when its Neuro High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Program opens this fall.
Negative results from imprecise targeting include issues strolling or slurring words. While such impacts are usually momentary, they can be permanent in 15 to 20 percent of cases, says Dr. Shah.
According to the National Institutes of Health, vital trembling affects as much as 10 million Americans and Parkinson’s disease impacts more than 1 million. Both are neurologic