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2014 Lasker Award again goes for therapeutic brain stimulation

Sep. 9, 2014
By Anette Breindl
Alim Louis Benabid and Mahlon R. DeLong are the recipients of the 2014 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award "for Development of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus," a treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease who no longer respond to treatment with the drug L-dopa.
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