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Parkinson's patient plays clarinet during brain surgery
NBC News· 2025-10-23 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 ...
Parkinson’s patient plays clarinet during brain surgery
NBC News· 2025-10-22 12:34
So the operation we did for Dennis is called deep brain stimulation which is a process whereby to insert really fine wires order of 1.2% mm in diameter so really thin wires into the brain into particular nuclei deep inside the brain which are responsible for control of movements. You find a bit easier to play this time. There's a period of um programming that has to take place um after the operation. So after the recovery period um gradually getting more and more stimulation and um that I can I can see that ...