{"id":212468,"date":"2025-04-26T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/smart-brain-implants-can-now-adapt-to-optimize-parkinsons-treatment"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:06:19","slug":"smart-brain-implants-can-now-adapt-to-optimize-parkinsons-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/smart-brain-implants-can-now-adapt-to-optimize-parkinsons-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Smart Brain Implants Can Now Adapt to Optimize Parkinson\u2019s Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UhoC2j4B6Uo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although the brain is our most complex organ, the ways to treat it have historically been rather simple.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, surgeons lesioned (damaged) a structure or a pathway in the hope that this would \u201ccorrect the imbalance\u201d that led to the disease. Candidate structures for lesioning were usually found by trial and error, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1159\/000525794\">serendipity<\/a> or experiments in animals.<\/p>\n<p>While performing one such surgery in 1987, French neurosurgeon Alim-Louis Benabid noticed that the electrical stimulation he performed to locate the right spot to lesion had effects similar to the lesion itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the brain is our most complex organ, the ways to treat it have historically been rather simple. Typically, surgeons lesioned (damaged) a structure or a pathway in the hope that this would \u201ccorrect the imbalance\u201d that led to the disease. Candidate structures for lesioning were usually found by trial and error, serendipity or experiments [\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-212468","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\/212468","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=212468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}