Parkinsons and Movement Disorders

Neural Transplantation and Neurosurgery

Neural transplantation is the transplantation of nerve cells and tissues into the brain and spinal cord. The cell replacement for Parkinsons Disease is based on two hypothesis- firstly the early symptoms of PD are dependent on the loss of the dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathways and secondly the dopaminergic neurons and gathered into dopamine deficient striatum can replace those neurons which has been lost during the disease process and can reverse some extent of the major symptoms of Parkinson disease.

Neurosurgery is the branch of drug that deals with surgery of the nervous system. Utmost people think of neurosurgery as brain surgery but it's much further. It's the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with injury to, or diseases/disorders of the brain, spinal cord and spinal column, and peripheral nerves within all parts of the body. The specialty of neurosurgical care includes both grown-up and Pediatric cases. Dependent upon the nature of the injury or disease a neurological surgeon may give surgical and/ or non-surgical care. 

Some Neurosurgery procedures include: