Links to information about Parkinson's disease with special emphasis on surgical treatments such as pallidotomy and deep brain stimulators. For more information about how you can contribute to the cure for Parkinson's disease click here.

Parkinson's Diseases Surgery Links

Information of about the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease for patients whose symptoms are not adequately controlled by an optimized medical regimen.

• Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery WebCast from Wake Forest Univeristy Baptist Medical Center: View a surgical procedure for Parkinson's disease.
  • Slide Show on Deep Brain Stimulation with detailed notes (Works best with Internet Explorer.)
• Neurosurgical Procedures for Parkinson's Disease, Dystonia, Dyskinesia, and Tremor: Pallidotomy, thalamotomy, subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation A written description of the procedures and their indications.
• Information about Deep Brain Stimulation from the manufacturer of ACTIVA, Medtronic, Inc
  • Deep Brain Stimulation FAQ
• Deep Brain Stimulation (and other) Surgery for Parkinson's Disease by Drs. G. Rees Cosgrove, Emad Eskandar, and Leslie Shinobu.
• An article on pallidotomy for parkinsons by Professor Penney from MGH Neurology's Neurotransmitter Newletter
• Stereotactic Procedure: A Guide for Patients (UIowa)

Information intended for medical professionals:

• Outcomes after stereotactic pallidotomy for advanced Parkinson's Disease. Douglas Kondziolka, Eugene Bonaroti, Susan Baser, Fran Brandt, Young Soo Kim, L. Dade Lunsford.
• Parkinson's disease severity rating systems

Articles about Parkinson's Disease

• Parkinson's Disease Introduction from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's BestHealth website.
• Information on Parkinson's Disease from the (US) National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Parkinson's disease: Making the diagnosis, selecting drug therapies by Douglis W. Scharre, MD; Michael E. Mahler, MD; From cnsonline.org
• Parkinson's Disease - Quality of Life Issues by Barbara Fitzsimmons, RN, MS; Lisette K. Bunting, RN, MScN; From cnsonline.org
• Special Report: Parkinson's Disease; From cnsonline.org
• The Parkinson Patient at Home Robert S. Schwab, MD and Lewis J. Doshay, M.D.; From cnsonline.org
• Exercises for the Parkinson's Patient; From cnsonline.org

Parkinson's Disease Websites

• Other Parkinson's disease World Wide Web Sites
  • We Move Support and information on a variety of movement disorders.
  • Awakenings from the European Parkinson's Disease Association
  • Parkinson's Web listing of Internet resources
  • Parkinson's Web from Pharmacia Inc. The makers of Mirapex.
  • The Parkinson's Disease Foundation in New York and Chicago
  • The Parkinson's Action Network (PAN) lobbies for more federal funds
  • American Parkinson Disease Association Staten Island, NY
  • National Parkinson Foundation of Miami Florida
  • Parkinson Foundation of Canada
    • Parkinson Society of Ottawa-Carelton
• Other Indexes of PD WWW sites
  • Yahoo's Health:Diseases and Conditions: Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's Disease On-line Support

• The MGH Neurology Brain Talk Communities
  • There are three active PD communities.
    • Parkinson's Disease
    • PLWP (People Living with Parkinson's)
    • Parkinson's Disease DBS Support
    • (Archive pre-2000) Parkinson's Disease Web Forum
• Parkinson's disease Listserve (mailing list). To subscribe send a message with "SUBSCRIBE PARKINSN" in the body.

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