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UW electrical engineering doctoral candidate and CSNE team member Margaret Thompson performs laboratory tests on a Medtronic deep brain stimulator to verify that the new closed-loop system for essential tremor functions as intended. Mark Stone/University of Washington
Brain signals deliver first targeted treatment for world’s most common movement disorder
Essential Tremor affects an estimated 7 million people in the U.S. alone and can be treated with Deep Brain Stimulation, where an electrode stimulates the brain to quiet the symptoms.
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Dr. Louis Kim Interviewed on KOMO News about emergency surgery to save stroke patient
Dr. Louis J. Kim, Vice-Chair and Chief of Neurological Surgery at Harborview Medical Center was featured in a KOMO news story about a stroke patient, Sue McNeely, who underwent life-saving…
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Closed Loop DBS for Essential Tremor
Dr. Andrew L. Ko, assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington, provides background on DBS for essential tremor and discusses the future including…
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The journal Neurosurgery names UW Neurological Surgery team article as Cerebrovascular Paper of the Year
Congratulations to UW Neurological Surgery co-authors whose paper entitled "Cerebral Revascularization for Aneurysms in the Flow Diverter Era" has been selected as the Neurosurgery Top…