Western Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of Parkinson's disease in the nation. And now, more and more patients are getting a new form of brain surgery to stop the tremors when they have become disabling.

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Called deep brain stimulation, it involves putting two electrodes deep into the brain and then attaching them to stimulator packs under the skin.

The stimulator packs send constant signals to the brain to override the shaking and rigidity of the disease.

Doctors at Allegheny General Hospital are now doing one to two of these surgeries a week as they move to ever younger patients, hoping to give them more years free of the symptoms of the disease.

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