The Beta Rhythm in Parkinson's Disease

We all have these little signals going on between 13 and 30 hertz in our brains. When they become abnormal is that these beta band oscillations, these neuronal oscillations,. begin to get kind of clumped together and synchronized. And that results in what we call a beta band burst. A burst of power that lasts too long is too synchronized. So one of the things we have to do is find the beta frequency and filter the signal in a band that is abnormal. We can then see how is that related to all our movements that we're doing in our lab. The first national multi center pivotal trial, which is run by Medtronic will actually result in closed loop deep brain stimulation