October 06, 2008
Deep brain optimism:
A list of things that deep brain stimulation has been used to treat. DBS involves surgically implanting an electrode into the brain which is stimulated with a 'pacemaker' like device.
I've just been looking over the DBS literature and I was quite surprised to see that it has been used to try and treat just about anything you can think of.
Maybe someone should try it for over-optimistic repetitive surgery syndrome? Anyway, here's the one's I've found, if you know of any others, do send them in or add them to the comments.
Early onset pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
