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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Not knocking the technology at all, it really can be life-changing for people with Parkinson’s disease. But it’s been around for a while, it was approved in the US by the FDA in the late 90s. A chip is not implanted, but rather electrodes in the brain that connect to the controller elsewhere.

    Source: I’m an anesthesiologist who has done the anesthesia for this surgery multiple times, including this morning.