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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND OTHER MOVEMENT DISORDERS

  • US 20110208263A1
  • Filed: 05/04/2011
  • Published: 08/25/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of improving symptoms associated with a movement disorder comprising:

  • selecting a stimulation site based upon a patient'"'"'s symptomatology, wherein the symptomatology of gait disturbance biases the selecting towards interhemispheric fissure along the precentral gyrus and/or postcentral gyrus and the symptomotalogy of speech disturbance biases the selecting towards the Sylvian fissure along the precentral gyrus and/or postcentral gyrus;

    positioning at least one electrode device having a plurality of electrical contacts such that at least a first of the plurality of electrical contacts is positioned below the patient'"'"'s skull and on the dura over the stimulation site; and

    applying electrical signals to the electrical contacts to stimulate the stimulation site such that at least one symptom associated with the movement disorder is improved.

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