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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Bancroft

Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease ‘reversed by brain implant’, trial suggests

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Surgeons have succeeded in implanting a device into a brain to reverse the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a ground-breaking procedure.

Southmead hospital in Bristol is believed to the first in the world to carry out the surgery. Doctors used a tiny deep brain stimulation device to override the brain-cell firing patterns caused by Parkinson’s disease.

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