don t seem to care, despite there being a tragic new example of their policies every single day. like 24-year-old ucla grad student brianna kupfer randomly stabbed to death working a furniture store in los angeles. our oaken father blaming politicians for letting criminals run rampant appearance because this kind of tragedy cannot befall more people. it is so painful. i m not going to name anybody by name that i blame. but in the the society now, getg back right and bestowing favor on people that rob others of their rights. jesse: the police believe his killer is a homeless man and calmly walked out the back door. but they are still trying to track him down. don t like that is not the
disorder that usually starts at a young age. i don t remember any parts of ever being tick free. so i was 5 when the symptoms started happening, 6 when i was diagnosed and not a day that s gone by that i don t remember making noise. it s been lovely. sitting in class second grade teachers would put me outside the hallway because i would be ticking so loud i was a distraction, so teachers would walk by me back and worth and say you better stop that before you get in my class next year. things that were just completely obscene that you would never expect the world to be, but i had to deal with it on a daily basis. okay. deep breath. after years of unsuccessful therapies and only limited results from her medications, amber was referred to dr. oaken at the university florida center for movement disorders. turn around again for me. okay. what we are planning on doing in your case is putting a lead down
half motor, motor movements, and almost half emotion. so when you take a look at what they re trying to do, they re actually going right in the middle. you got motor on one side. emotion on the other. and look at that line that goes right down the middle of both. to make sure they found the right location, this sometime late the leads on amber s motor cortex. how you doing? that involuntary switch that s a good sign. is this going to change? next the deep brain electrodes are lowered into place to capture neural activity. okay, let s get the lights down. what we re listening to now is three channels so it s like an orchestra so it s an ensemble. oaken gradually drives the electrodes deeper and deeper listening as the cells talk to him. all three channels are up, guys, got a burster coming out of the posterior channel.
you can do it. i m just going to size it up first and see how it fits. try to relax. ouch, ouch, ouch. the day of amber s brain surgery has finally arrived. after a lifetime of living with the debilitating effects of tourette s syndrome she and her family are hope today s operation can finally provide some relief. there she is. the guest of honor. so, hopefully we should put a pillow do you understand everything that s being done today? yes. okay. how you feeling about it? as good as i can be. okay. you get to stay awake through the whole thing. yeah. i heard. let me just watch the internal capsule and watch the boundaries of the structures that we can see. that is what we think looks like a pretty safe trajectory to get there. dr. oaken and dr. foote expect the operation to last 12 hours. negative 12. negative 12.
into grand central station on each side but also there s going to be a lead on the top of your brain sitting on the surface of your brain. dr. oaken and dr. foote have chosen amber for an experimental dbs surgery. they will implant a new grid-like device on top of her brain in addition to the standard leads which go deep inside the brain. by combining both, they hope to gather information from amber s brain that will not only lessen her ticks, but maybe some day stop them. so the difference in tourette is the movement disorder isn t there all the time, you know, when you get a tick, it comes on. and the patients that have ticks they get this buildup, they call it an urge, that s what the scientists call it and they feel like they need to move and until they move they don t feel better and so they get a sense of relief. between the two black, okay?