A Shock to the System
From: Wired Magazine - March 2007
By: Steven Gulie

To slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease, doctors planted electrodes deep
in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. 

To treat Parkinson’s disease, deep brain stimulation uses a pacemaker the
size of a deck of cards implanted under the collarbone to deliver continuous
low-voltage shocks down two sets of stiff wires to electrodes near the
subthalamic nucleus, a peanut-sized cluster of neurons near the center of the
brain. The electrodes can be turned on or off in various combinations to
increase or decrease the size of the area being stimulated. The idea is to
correct errant impulses that result in the loss of motor control. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/brainsurgery_pr.html

Deep brain electrodes - from the inside:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/03/deep_brain_electrode.html

A first-hand account of deep brain stimulation
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/a-first-hand-account-of-deep-brain-stimulation/

Jaimie Henderson
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neurosurgery/faculty/Jaimie_Henderson/

Helen Bronte-Stewart
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Helen_Bronte-Stewart/