A search for Parkinson's in the hiss of our brain's static has revealed measures of motor control that could one day fine-tune precise forms of stimulation therapy .

Led by the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, an international team of scientists combined five sets of electrophysiological data taken from deep within the brains of 119 people with Parkinson's disease.

By comparing specific brain-wave activity to the severity of individual patients' symptoms, the researchers were able to sift out patterns that could be confidently matched to the condition's impact on movement.

Parkinson's disease is fundamentally a breakdown in the functioning of a part of the brain called the basal ganglia , robbing people of the ability to filter information

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