Deep Brain Stimulation: Understanding DBS for Tardive Dyskinesia

Now, and, and we mentioned in the very beginning there was the, you, you, um, launched or, or spearheaded something called the Minders.

I- is it Minders Center? Um-

Yes.

The Minders Center for Movement Disorders.

It's part of the Minders Neuroscience Institute.

Uh, uh, a patient of ours, um, Herman Minders, um, who recently passed away, uh, gave us an extremely generous donation, um, him and his family, to help us build out a center of excellence for Oklahoma.

If we had to look at centers of excellence for Parkinson's or Huntington's, uh, basically movement disorders, you would have...

If you drew a line in that region, you would have one at KU in Kansas City, and the next one would be in, um, uh, Houston, Baylor-

Mm

... at the time.

I'm, I'm talking, we're, we're talking back, uh, when we first start do- started do- thinking and planning for this.

And so we really needed one for our state in Oklahoma.

Uh, and, uh, the Minders family helped us achieve that.

If you could estimate for us, um, how many of these movement disorders centers are there throughout the US? Do you have any idea that we could kind of give our audience?

The simplest way is how many states do y'all have in the country, roughly that many centers will be there, because you're gonna have a tertiary university academic site for each of your state.

Okay.

There's gonna be at least one.

Okay? Almost all of them will do DBS.

Mm-hmm.

This is, this is pretty much guaranteed.

Or the, there'll be one which is just across the border for you-

Right

... uh, for your state.

So in some states, they're very lucky.

The, they'll have, like, three, four s- sites within the same city, right?