Andrew Huberman· PhD
deep brain stimulation the surgery that I do routinely is a procedure where yes there is structure involved of course we have to place a a very thin wire that's insulated deep into a part of the brain that's involved in Parkinson's disease for example uh but that's actually not the therapy the therapy is delivering electrical stimulation through the tip of that wire or one of the tips as there actually are multiple contacts at the bottom of the wire they're very small uh but that's all done out of the operating room you know this stimulation wire is connected to a a battery pack or a pulse generator that's kind of like a pacemaker and so we deliver this therapy and I always tell patients it's a bit more like I have to implant a uh a tool to deliver you a medication but that medication is going to be in the form of electricity