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About this time last year, I was conversing with Dr. Lozano in Toronto. I sent him a copy of my MRI film taken in July of '96. He said that a correctly placed lesion in the thalamus might help me. I was puzzled by this, as I knew that Thalamatomies are mainly used for tremor - of which I have none. My biggest problem is dystonia. I wrote him back with my concerns, to which he replied it all has to do with the placement of the lesion. He said that a correctly placed lesion in my thalamus could provide me some relief from the dystonia. Since then, I have done a lot of reading, and I have found out that something like 85% of the output from the globus pallidus (the ONLY part of my brain that was injured by the CO poisoning) goes to the thalamus. If I am correct, a thalamatomy would help balance out the signals. In other words, the thalamus is busy trying to receive the signals that aren't coming from the pallidus, therefore causing the severe dystonia. A local hospital is going to begin doing stereotacticoperationssoon.SoI would not have to go any further than 20 miles. Any thoughts on the logic behind my thinking would be appreciated. Jacob
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