Parkinson's patient plays clarinet during brain surgery
NBC Newsยท2025-10-23 13:50
It's a story you have to hear to believe. What sounds more like a symphony than a surgery. That's 65year-old Denise Bacon serenating her surgeons as they operate on her brain.You heard correctly. Doctors in London are stimulating her brain with electrical impulses. And almost instantly, she feels improvement in her finger movements.We insert electrodes deep inside the brain at very particular target points. >> You see, Bacon has Parkinson's disease, stiff muscles, slow movement, difficulty walking and swimm ...