Attached: 1 video
Researchers helped a patient with Parkinson by implanting an electronic chip in the brain and sending a signal to it. The miracle of modern #technology... #healthcare
Not knocking the technology at all, it really can be life-changing for people with Parkinson’s disease. But it’s been around for a while, it was approved in the US by the FDA in the late 90s. A chip is not implanted, but rather electrodes in the brain that connect to the controller elsewhere.
Source: I’m an anesthesiologist who has done the anesthesia for this surgery multiple times, including this morning.
Not knocking the technology at all, it really can be life-changing for people with Parkinson’s disease. But it’s been around for a while, it was approved in the US by the FDA in the late 90s. A chip is not implanted, but rather electrodes in the brain that connect to the controller elsewhere.
Source: I’m an anesthesiologist who has done the anesthesia for this surgery multiple times, including this morning.