Vanderbilt Deep Brain Stimulation Special - Part 1/4

it's a disease that's received a lot of attention because of all the famou people who have it actor michael j box former attorney general janet reno boxing legend muhammad ali to local sports figure national predators associate and spread peterson parkinson's disease is a brain disorder affecting men and women in equal numbers between a million in a million and a half americans have excess chances aren't you know someone with it or having yourselves parkinson's effects all aspects of movements in all aspects of a person's life the disease is progressing eating symptoms will always worsen over time there's no treatment to slow its progression no cure someone's being done to help masons with parkinson's and other similar movement disorders that are just as debilitating like essential tremor or just any we turn to the experts in the department of neurology at vanderbilt in the department of neurosurgery baby bells for the very latest in research in treatment welcome to medical advances heat treatment options for parkinson's disease have until vfx and yet that three in the next half hour we'll show you the first study habits kind in the world and about researchers testing a treatment actually slow parkinson's progression in the operating room will show you have that same treatment is already changing the lives of patients with all kinds of movement disorders plus could that treatment also be the key helping people with severe depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder but first what are the challenges of living with parkinson's disease heard eight three eight three agar aapko national predators associate head straight peterson is a competitor hotbed play he focuses on helping players needs smarter on the ice so they can support rather wallpapers step ride five years ago exchange in his movement changes are required uh... his wife noticed his right arm didn't swing when you log eyes sort of group who would because i i had so many of these playing hockey and i had uh... i just love may be a pulled muscle or staying there are some of the news that you get it just would go away even noticed other things and he's out of my pocket or just a little things dress was for a slow down so i went to a doctor are doctor your ladies image in a religious the diagnosis parkinson's disease use i didn't believe in women and my wife and i didn't tell anybody and she was pretty devastated and i was the subject of hockey players played for years and i said i can't be parkinson's disease is the admiralty generative disease where adverse cells in the brain prematurely di when this self-styled abide a brain chemical called dopamine can't be produced dopamine is what allows smoothing coordinated muscle movements researchers don't know specifically why sell stop producing dampening its symptoms appear when eighty percent of cells are damaged your dead causing faulty brain activity the symptoms of that trevor sloan is stiffness and loss of the house there could be a number of causes including environmental toxins such pesticides pretty reassess trauma except red anything that would cause the cells prematurely many nights in the role of the one you know we knew but my wife and dr there was made i think that was substantive why me why this happened in the eye gets in on the young forty-five years old it's when i first found out and i felt sort for myself it took her to be simply here before he could deal with this diagnosis talking to a hockey but we've gone through the diagnosis insult to call the coach set friend michael j box stop playing hockey stock going out and start doing things he's instill sort himself is a very positive guy in his meets it had on recently he just stuck to his busy enjoy doing this is going to that this is a guy laughing buddies self your judges from jordan like you gotta go on coach pete soon did move on he's now on the standard treatment for parkinson's medication to replace or mimic the missing deafening his tremor isn't barely noticeable typically were able to keep patience functioning at their level at which we need like this then for five or six years into the disease there's daylight is well at this hour they do at one hundred like the i've been busy for five years and i admin it has affected my job and i've been able to do my work in and get by a dive so busy though in some days ago here which need to say now wants to help parkinson's patients newt's modern life by coaching them like michael j_ fox's kiem this happened by the way to think that it's not the worst things happen it will be born had wouldn't deal with it straight on them and try to get the best here you can or medications that person does like traverse potentially they stop working effectively so whether options are there and let me know and we take you into the operating room put a leading edge brain surgery held