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Deep-brain Therapy for Parkinson's |
| Section: LIFE / HEALTH |
| Author: Jen Waters |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 964 Words, 6,555 Characters |
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Ray Farkas narrated one of the toughest moments of his life--undergoing brain surgery--as it happened. When Farkas, now sixty-nine, received deep-brain stimulators to treat his Parkinson's disease in October 2003, he created It Ain't Television, It's Brain Surgery, a movie that chronicled his operation at Georgetown University Hospital, where he was awake for the entire procedure.
He runs his own company, Off Center Productions, in Washington, D.C.
"I wouldn't be talking to you, I wouldn't be working right now without the surgery," the Washington, D.C. resident says. "Some problems still exist, but to a much lesser degree."
As medical experts search for a cure for Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative condition, deep-brain stimulation has enabled many people with the ill...
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...e chapter in 2000, organizing annual fundraising walks in Baker Park in Frederick, Maryland.
He was diagnosed with the illness in September 1998. More than 1.5 million persons in the United States suffer from it, he says.
"Don't be a 'poor me' type of individual," Ruff says. "Accept the challenge. Otherwise, it will get the best of you."
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