Smart brain implants are helping people with Parkinson's and other disorders

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 "correct the imbalance" that led to the disease. Candidate structures for lesioning were usually found by trial and error, serendipity or experiments in animals.

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