Talk:Thalamotomy

Permanent killing
Stating that "the brain cells are permanently killed" doesn't sound very smart to me. I've never heard of anything that could be temporarily killed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.61.99.98 (talk) 15:03, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Include recent research re. focused ultrasound as a treatment for essential tremor?
The August 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports research that used focused ultrasound to perform a partial thalamotomy. The method has been recently approved by the FDA for treatment of essential tremor. I'm not sure of Wikipedia standards for inclusion, but this seems to me to be an important advance. I have not yet looked in detail at WP articles on the thalamus and essential tremor, but this research might be relevant to those articles as well as this one. Wcmead3 (talk) 04:26, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Thalamotomy vs Subthalamotomy, also: article probably needs overall re-organisation
Are these :

- two different things, or

- two different words for the same thing, or

- is Subthalamotomy a type of Thalamotomy, or

- is Subthalamotomy the only type of Thalamotomy that is performed, or

- something else?

Whichever it is, I think it should be stated explicitly within the article.

Some particular things about the organisation of the article :

- Thalamotomy is the article title, and Subthalamotomy is a section, but then the term thalamotomy is used within that section.

- Surgical procedures, Complications and Studies are all within Subthalamotomy, but Indications is outside it; and Indications does not list PD, even though PD is mentioned elsewhere in the article.

I think I understand the topic enough to see that there are these issues with the article, but not well well enough to sort the article out.

FrankSier (talk) 09:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)