Amazing brain implant helps ease Parkinson's disease

By Jennie Curtin
Updated August 4 2015 - 12:15pm, first published 12:00am
Robert O'Connor checks the readings on the device implanted into his wife Cecilia's stomach to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Robert O'Connor checks the readings on the device implanted into his wife Cecilia's stomach to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

For 15 years, Cecilia O'Connor's body shook uncontrollably, the awful legacy of Parkinson's disease.

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