Does deep brain stimulation work? | Sunday Night Archive
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- After being diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby, Martha struggled being trapped in a body that wasn't her own. There is no cure for cerebral palsy sufferers like Martha, but there is hope. It's a radical treatment called deep brain stimulation.
This story originally aired on the 11th September 2011.
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Bless those two for letting the public into their lives for this story.
Couldn’t agree more
What a fantastic story
After my stroke at 16 and the journey it took to get normal again. It humbled me. God bless them
Dear Martha, You possess a loving stellar spirit. You're an inspiration to all as your outward and inner beauty radiantly shine. By the way, you're so pretty you actually look good with a shaved head. Thank You so much for sharing your courageous progress. Love to you and your husband.
Appreciation to your doctor's and physical therapist. ❤️🙏
Gotta love science!!
I’m aware this technology is used in other movement disorders. I wonder if they’ve tried it on Huntington’s Chorea, although that genetic disorder has severe cognitive decline as well, and patients may not qualify.
I think there was/is a trial with deep brain stimulation in Poland for HD. I saw a documentary on it in German, I think, a while back. If it worked, that would improve quality of life for HD patients so much! As to the mental decline, at least the aggression and depression can be treated to some degree with medication. So can the Chorea, but it might be less of a strain on the body if deep brain stimulation could be used instead of Tetrabenazine for the Chorea. Then, medication could focus on the psychiatric aspect - and accident risk would be decreased significantly, too. That would also likely reduce the level of frustration in patients.
Professor Brian Owler is our best .
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Healing in Jesus name amen 🙏 ❤ God bless you
In praising the lord for his compassion in healing these brave souls... you also have to call him a sick f**k for creating them sick in the first place.
ALL the credit goes to science, the medical community, human ingenuity, the strength of the afflicted and their carers.
Your conclusion does not follow. Thanking him for what is good but not for what is bad is no more a contradiction than saying that light is light and darkness is darkness. Darkness isn’t darkness because of light.
Now underlying your view of God is a common atheistic view that God is merely a mega-being, which in your case is a God you just don’t like.
You thank science for ALL of these things, and yet science makes assumptions about reality that it can’t prove: That it even exists, that cause and effect exist. That objectivity exists.
So no, we don’t thank science for All. We thank God that science is even possible and that our ultimate fulfillment is resting in him as the core of our being.
Thank you God.