Month: February 2024

Limb Preference Changes after Focused-Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Tremor. (OPEN ACCESS) Swytink-Binnema CA, Rockel CP, Martino D, Dukelow SP, Pike GB, Kiss ZHT. Mov Disord. 2023 May;38(5):831-842. doi: 10.1002/mds.29350. SUMMARY: Although MRgFUS thalamotomy reduces some risks associated with more invasive surgeries, …

A Systematic Review Comparing Focused Ultrasound Surgery With Radiosurgery for Essential Tremor. (Locked) Kondapavulur S, Silva AB, Molinaro AM, Wang DD. Neurosurgery. 2023 Sep 1;93(3):524-538. doi: 10.1227/neu.0000000000002462. SUMMARY: The authors present a comprehensive systematic review with network meta-analysis examining both …

Treatment of vocal tremor with bilateral magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused ultrasound of the ventral intermediate thalamic nucleus: illustrative case. (OPEN ACCESS) Pearce JJ, Thoma J, Vinson K, Sani S. J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2023 Jun 26;5(26):CASE2351. doi: 10.3171/CASE2351. SUMMARY: This …

Patient satisfaction following unilateral MR-guided focused ultrasound for tremor: Who is satisfied and who is not? (Locked) Rabin JS, Gopinath G, McSweeney M, Scantlebury N, Rohringer CR, Sewell IJ, Abrahao A, Jones RM, Huang Y, Lam B, Hamani C, Giacobbe …

Trial of Globus Pallidus Focused Ultrasound Ablation in Parkinson’s Disease. (Locked) Krishna V, Fishman PS, Eisenberg HM, Kaplitt M, Baltuch G, Chang JW, Chang WC, Martinez Fernandez R, Del Alamo M, Halpern CH, Ghanouni P, Eleopra R, Cosgrove R, Guridi …

A phase 1 open-label trial evaluating focused ultrasound unilateral anterior thalamotomy for focal onset epilepsy. (Locked) Vibhor Krishna, Jesse Mindel, Francesco Sammartino, Cady Block, Alok Kumar Dwivedi, Jamie J Van Gompel, Nathan Fountain, Robert Fisher. Epilepsia. 2023 Apr;64(4):831-842. doi: 10.1111/epi.17535. …

Safety of Bilateral Staged Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor. (OPEN ACCESS) Scantlebury N, Rohringer CR, Rabin JS, Yunusova Y, Huang Y, Jones RM, Meng Y, Hamani C, McKinlay S, Gopinath G, Sewell IJ, Marzouqah R, McSweeney M, …

Deep brain stimulation, lesioning, focused ultrasound: update on utility. (OPEN ACCESS) Akshay Reddy, Mohammad Reza Hosseini, Aashay Patel, Ramy Sharaf, Vishruth Reddy, Arman Tabarestani, Brandon Lucke-Wold. AIMS Neurosci. 2023 Apr 26;10(2):87-108.doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2023007. SUMMARY: Procedures for neurological disorders such as PD, …

Comparative neural correlates of DBS and MRgFUS lesioning for tremor control in essential tremor. (Locked) Germann J, Santyr B, Boutet A, Sarica C, Chow CT, Elias GJB, Vetkas A, Yang A, Hodaie M, Fasano A, Kalia SK, Schwartz ML, Lozano …