{"id":214906,"date":"2025-05-27T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-brain-stimulation-alleviates-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:07:04","slug":"how-brain-stimulation-alleviates-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-brain-stimulation-alleviates-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"How brain stimulation alleviates symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-brain-stimulation-alleviates-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Persons with Parkinson\u2019s disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker.<\/p>\n<p>In a current study, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg, Germany, investigated whether and how stimulation of a certain region of the brain can have a positive impact on ambulatory ability and provide patients with a higher quality of life. To do this, the researchers used a technique in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> are activated and deactivated via light. Their report is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-96995-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persons with Parkinson\u2019s disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker. In a current study, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg, Germany, investigated whether and how stimulation of a certain region of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214906","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\/214906","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}