Ottawa Hospital team pioneers virtual reality to treat Parkinson's patients

With a virtual reality goggles fixed on his head and wands in his hands, neurosurgeon Dr. Adam Sachs can step inside a patient’s brain for an extreme close up of where he will place an electrode during deep brain stimulation surgery — virtually, that is.
For now, the cutting-edge technique, created at The Ottawa Hospital’s virtual reality lab, is still in development.
But Sachs, director of neuromodulation and functional neurosurgery at TOH and a researcher with the Ottawa Hosp