David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
DBS Device for Tourette?s
By Sandra Kiume
April 1, 2011
Jeff Matovic, a man with severe tics from Tourette?s Syndrome, receives a DBS implant and has dramatic, near-immediate relief of symptoms. Matovic was the first US patient to receive a deep brain stimulation (DBS) device for Tourette?s, in 2008. It?s an established practice for Parkinson?s, and is now being tried in other disorders.
By Sandra Kiume
April 1, 2011
Jeff Matovic, a man with severe tics from Tourette?s Syndrome, receives a DBS implant and has dramatic, near-immediate relief of symptoms. Matovic was the first US patient to receive a deep brain stimulation (DBS) device for Tourette?s, in 2008. It?s an established practice for Parkinson?s, and is now being tried in other disorders.
