Peter Tass studied medicine (MD, Ulm and Heidelberg Univ., Germany), physics (PhD, Stuttgart Univ., Germany), and mathematics (diploma, Stuttgart Univ.) and made a Habilitation in physiology (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).
Since 2017 he is Professor of Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical School. Peter Tass investigates and develops neuromodulation techniques for understanding and treating neurologic conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, dysfunction following stroke and tinnitus. He creates invasive and non-invasive therapeutic procedures by means of comprehensive computational neuroscience studies and advanced data analysis techniques.
Peter Tass has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers, is inventor or co-inventor on more than 270 patents and received a number of national and international awards.
Hi Michel, first of all thank you for your You Tube channel which is my source of information on current effective PD therapies, I find it very 'alive' and interesting.
I too will watch the recording the next day on You Tube because I am not a native English speaker and I need the subtitles.
However, I have a question for him: why don't neurologists use the Electroencephalogram and *pathologically persistent synchrony* as a symptom on a par with tremor or others in the diagnosis of PD? The Electroencephalogram could be useful as an instrumental and objective test, almost a biomarker, IMO.Gio
Hi Gioc. Thank you very much for the kind words! Our videos have been seen more than 250,000 times and Mark and I are delighted to have reached so many PwPs! For many, this about knowledge but also about hope.
This is great news but I don't think I will be able to watch it live. I too will watch it on YouTube.
Not sure if this question has already been asked, but could you perhaps ask Dr Tass whether it makes a difference when using the gloves if the wearer is asleep or will it work better if they are awake? Does anyone out there know the answer to this?
Does the type of activity of the PwP while wearing the gloves impact the effectiveness of the therapy? For example, would walking around the neighborhood, while wearing the gloves, harm or help the therapy?
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if 4 hours a day is good, would more hours be better
I will try to get clarification on this point but would encourage you to attend the live session so that you can see if this question is already covered or if other questions come to mind as you hear the presentation.
Does Dr Tass have recommendations on whether or not the vibrating finger tips need to be suspended in the air for 4 hours or if it is OK to rest them on parts of the body such as the skull or rib cage (bone vibrates very strongly) or gut just below rib cage ... would this possibly help reset neurons related to constipation issues; might also aid motility during months of therapy? what to do with those fingertips?
Hi Michel, I am really looking forward to hearing an update on “The Glove” and just wanted to thank you for creating your No Silver Bullet website and sharing all this information. The recent interview with Dr Laurie Mischley was great too. Please keep on spreading the hope in such a professional and gracious way, and know your efforts are admired and appreciated.
This one is going to be of particular interest Michel. Presumably the bulk of his presentation will be very similar to the Twitchy Women one. So the main interest is going to be in the questions and answers. Do you have a schedule of questions for this one?
Hi Winnie, it will likely have lots in common with other recent presentations but I guess it’s a dynamic space so there might be new information too. I agree that Q&A will be key and we are planning to proceed as per our previous sessions.
Really looking forward to this Michel, it has been of enormous interest to many people here.
We ‘ve just caught up with the recent Dr Laura Mischley presentation on you tube as unfortunately we had to go out on that evening. Another informative and interesting presentation. Thank you for all you do with the Silver Bullet presentations. We ve caught up with quite a few early ones that we missed. Such a lot of information there.
By now I am sure you have a list of questions to ask Peter Tass. If not already on the list, would you please ask him whether he knows or suspects that the gloves could help in treating PD dementia? This may sound highly unlikely but then, before the gloves were developed, they too sounded far-fetched.
Thanks PDWarrior for this article. It does however seem to be concentrating on Alzheimer's and does not mention PD dementia or Lewy Bodies Dementia. Would these drugs also work on LBD? Nevertheless, it is very encouraging that there are a number of possible breakthroughs in the near future for dementia in general.
i know that and i posted that it did not mention PD in my original post... but Alzheimers and PD, as you know, are both brain diseases... so whenever a discovery/ therapy/ treatment that is highly successful for one type of brain disease ... i gotta figure/ hope that other neuro-scientists can learn new info to help PwP
Hi Rafiki. We don’t put together question lists as such as the questions are rather driven by the live audience but I am of course happy to ask a question on your behalf if you are unable to join the live session.
I have a scheduling conflict with the live presentation, but will definitely watch it the next day. If possible, could you ask Dr. Tass about which sequence of vibrations he considers the best? There are multiple studies of different types of sequences, but nothing that ranks all of them together. Is it Regular Coordinated Reset(vCR), varying timing of the stimulus like 23% jitter Coordinated Reset, the variable stimulus amplitude Coordinated Reset, etc. What about each hand being mirrored or non-mirrored? I would also be curious on why he is not using the thumb as a stimulation target since it has so many sensory receptors.
This would definitely help the DIY followers to get a target they can “lock on to”. Thank you for have such an influential researcher as your guest.
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