Medicine: Shocking Parkinson's news

“In carefully selected patients, neurostimulation of the subthalamic nucleus is a powerful treatment that alleviates the burden of advanced Parkinson’s disease,” wrote the team, led by Gunther Deuschl of Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

A lot of neuroscientists are going to be pretty flustered if the next wave of neuroscience is psychomotor neurosurgery rather than psychopharmacology. So it blows.