The Parkinson's Appeal for Deep Brain Stimulation

USEFUL LINKS

Brain Research Trust
www.brt.org.uk

Parkinson Disease Society
www.parkinsons.org.uk

DBS for Dystonia discussion group
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/DBSforDystonia

The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
www.dystonia-foundation.org

European Parkinson's Disease Association
www.epda.eu.com

Pals Support Group
http://gofree.indigo.ie/~pdpals/

Clinical Depression Website
www.clinical-depression.co.uk

The Cure Parkinson's Trust
http://www.cureparkinsons.org.uk

Medtronic
www.medtronic.co.uk

The Parkinson's Alliance
www.parkinsonalliance.net

Family Caregiver Alliance
www.caregiver.org

Care4Dystonia, Inc
www.care4dystonia.org

The Michael J. Fox Foundation
www.michaeljfox.org

People living with Parkinson's (PLWP)
http://www.plwp.org

The Institute of Neurology
www.ion.ucl.ac.uk

Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders
www.sobell.ion.ucl.ac.uk

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit PD Surgical Trials
www.pdsurg.bham.ac.uk

The Royal College of Physicians clinical guideline for the management of Parkinson's
www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/brochures/pub_print_PD.htm

National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for DBS in the treatment of tremor and dystonia http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=IP_319

Professor Benabid Neuroscience unit in Grenoble (in French) www.lyon.inserm.fr/318/
can be translated using http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Professor DeSalles UCLA http://neurosurgery.ucla.edu/Programs/
Functional/Functional_Intro.html

UCLA Neurosurgery
http://neurosurgery.ucla.edu/Index.html

National Parkinson Foundation
www.parkinson.org/site/pp.asp?c=9dJFJLPwB&b=486635

The Movement Disorder Society
www.movementdisorders.org/links.shtml

American Parkinson Disease Association
www.apdaparkinson.org/user/index.asp

The Tourette Syndrome (UK) Association www.tsa.org.uk/welcome.asp

Medranks
www.medranks.com

European Dana Alliance for the Brain
www.edab.net

Personal experiences of Pallidotomy

http://gofree.indigo.ie/~pdpals2/cm.htm

Links to Articles of interest

Brain pacemaker treats depression
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4625775.stm

The New York Times - A Depression Switch?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/magazine/02depression.html?ex=1301634000&en=8cf7b919e70e1f04&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Emory Healthcare Sciences Centre - University Hospital
www.emoryhealthcare.org/press_room/
ehc_news/2005/Mar/Deep_Brain_Stimulation.html

 

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