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To significantly slow the debilitating disease which affects 5.4 million americans and is expected to jump to 16 million by 2050. but dr. anderson says the surgery has been extremely effective in canada where it has been performed six times on patients such as robert linton with early alzheimers. >> if i cant remember something, if i just pause for one, two, three, seconds. it pops in. >> reporter: here is how it works, the pacemaker surgically implanted in the chest, wires are run under the ski...

A promising new treatment for alzheimers disease arrived in america. doctors have implanted a pacemaker-like device in the brain of a woman in baltimore. >> it has already proven to help patients in canada, giving them hope of keeping their memories alive. here is abcs john schifrin. >> reporter: a cure for alzheimers disease, with heartbreaking mental decline and memory loss has long alluded doctors. but now a new surgical approach involving a pacemaker used to stimulate the brain is offering g...

20 followed up and well see what the result is going to be. the outcome of this trial should be out within a year and preliminary results should show that the pace of this short-term memory and slowing of the brain is going to be much less. so, this is a very exciting field and the fact that its been done so many times, tells us its quite safe. >> quickly before i let you go. do we know at this juncture if theres a certain stage of alzheimers that you should actually treat this person with a pac...

18-wheeler and swerved into a guardrail and off the road. alisyn: you have heard of pacemaker for the heart, how about one for the brain? >> it its promising it works like a pace maker. they implant a device into the chest and have two wires that strewn beneath the skin and they go up into the skull. a couple wires and they actually run along the natural wires of the brain and the wires deliver electrical charges into parts of the brain that are responsible for learning and for memory. here is a...

Removed if were talking about em embarrassment, but his attorneys say that was abusive and thats actually what he suffered, abuse. jon: okay. heather -- >> reporter: im glad to be heather. jon: harris faulkner -- >> reporter: whatever. heather: and i would be glad to be harris. well, a groundbreaking medical procedure, a pacemaker for your brain. doctors at johns hopkins university are the first to perform the surgery. they have performed one surgery so far. the goal is to stimulate the brain mu...

After a court decisions that allowed the practices. a go -- generic case will be paid to keep the drug off the marriage. and they will hear the case on whether gay marriage should be protected federally, and that will be taken up in march and we could know by the summer. researchers at johns hopkins have successfully implanted the first pacemaker for the brain as a possible treatment for alzheimers disease. the device sends electrical impulses to the area of the brain that feeds them and stimula...

Experts say one in eight americans over the age of 65 will develop the disease. one of the doctors in the trial joins us now, an associate professor of psychiatry at johns hopkins at the school of medicine. congratulations and thank you. tell us what this is and how this works. >>guest: well, this is a very similar to a surgery used in severe parkinsons disease patients. you as a neurosurgeon, you drill two holes in the skull. you guide two very thin wires to each side of the brain and the wires...

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Sarksd mommy. and i was thrilled that she recognized me. >> but kylie wont get to savor is the reunion for long. within an hour she goes into surgery where shes fitted with a pacemaker to help protect her from what turns out to be a previously unpredicted abnormality. >> kylie did not have a seizure, she has an arrhythmia. what the aed read was ventricular fibrillation, which her heart stopped working and stopped pumping blood to her brain. >> armed for life with a pacemaker, kylie is grateful t...