{"id":161651,"date":"2023-04-06T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/alzheimers-disease-deep-brain-stimulation-may-help-improve-symptoms"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:23:04","slug":"alzheimers-disease-deep-brain-stimulation-may-help-improve-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/alzheimers-disease-deep-brain-stimulation-may-help-improve-symptoms","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s disease: Deep brain stimulation may help improve symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-disease-deep-brain-stimulation-may-help-improve-symptoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep brain stimulation is a surgical procedure where electrodes are placed in specific areas of the brain. The electrodes are connected by wires to a small device, similar to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/324662\" class=\"\">pacemaker<\/a>, that is placed under the skin in the chest area.<\/p>\n<p>The electrodes create electrical pulses that override abnormal signals that could cause neurological issues.<\/p>\n<p>There has also recently been a move toward developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnbeh.2021.820017\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">less invasive methods<\/a> for deep brain stimulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep brain stimulation is a surgical procedure where electrodes are placed in specific areas of the brain. The electrodes are connected by wires to a small device, similar to a pacemaker, that is placed under the skin in the chest area. The electrodes create electrical pulses that override abnormal signals that could cause neurological issues. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}