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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical excision of a portion of the thalamus, usually to relieve tremor, as in Parkinson's disease.
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- noun surgery An
invasive procedure , primarily effective fortremors such as those associated withParkinson's disease , where a selected portion of thethalamus issurgically destroyed .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Other medications that might help include the seizure drugs topiramate and gabapentin, the anxiety drug alprazolam and other medications for high blood pressure. brain stimulation and a type of brain surgery called thalamotomy may help people who do not respond to medications.
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A thalamotomy is a procedure that destroys tissue at a particular spot -- the Ventralis Inter-Medius nucleus -- on the thalamus of the brain which influences movement.
unknown title 2009
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Surgical intervention such as thalamotomy and deep brain stimulation may ease certain tremors.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Joseph Fourier. 243 p. Ohye C, Shibazaki T (2009) Treatment of functional disorders with gamma knife thalamotomy.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010
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Ten adult patients diagnosed with chronic neuropathic pain successfully underwent non-invasive deep brain ablation surgery (central lateral thalamotomy) with transcranial MRgFUS and showed improvement in pain scores and reduction of pain medication with no adverse effects at three months follow-up.
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