Pierre D. and the first photographs of Parkinson’s disease. Lewis PA, Plun-Favreau H, Rowley M, Spillane J. Mov Disord. 2020 Mar;35(3):389-391. SUMMARY: When the famous Queen Square neurologist William Gowers wrote his Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System …
Cerebral Impaludation – An Ignoble Procedure between Two Nobel Prizes: Frontal Lobe Lesions before the Introduction of Leucotomy. Blomstedt P. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2020;98:150–159 SUMMARY: It has been claimed many times that Moniz inspiration to perform leucotomy was by a …
Editor’s Note: Deep Brain Stimulation and Functional Neurosurgery for Movement Disorders: Is the Current Cycle Waning? Jose A. Obeso. Movement Disorders, Vol. 34, No. 12, 2019 SUMMARY: This is a moving affectionate farewell Editorial of the Editor of Mov. Disord. …
Parkinson’s disease – the story of an eponym. Goedert M, Compston A. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Jan;14(1):57-62 SUMMARY: Everybody knows or assumes that the disease called by James Parkinson “paralysis agitans” was renamed by Charcot “La maladie de Parkinson” i.e., …
Safety assessment of spine MRI in deep brain stimulation patients. Boutet A, Elias GJB, Gramer R, Neudorfer C, Germann J, Naheed A, Bennett N, Li B, Gwun D, Chow CT, Maciel R, Valencia A, Fasano A, Munhoz RP, Foltz W, …
Direct visual targeting versus preset coordinates for ANT-DBS in epilepsy. Nome T, Herrman H, Lehtimäki K, Egge A, Konglund A, Ramm-Pettersen J, Taubøll E, Dietrichs E. Acta Neurol Scand. 2020 Feb 20. doi: 10.1111/ane.13233. [Epub ahead of print] SUMMARY: in …
The Utility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Neuromodulation: Moving Beyond Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Tohyama S, Walker MR, Sammartino F, Krishna V, Hodaie M. N Neuromodulation 2020 Jun;23(4):427-435. SUMMARY: The authors state that DTI holds promise for enhancing neuromodulation targeting …
Deep brain stimulation in the caudal zona incerta modulates the sensorimotor cerebello-cerebral circuit in essential tremor. Awad A, Blomstedt P, Westling G, Eriksson J. Neuroimage. 2020 Apr 1;209:116511. SUMMARY: The authors used functional MRI in 16 essential tremor patients chronically …
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Long Term Naturalistic Follow Up Study in a Single Institution. Holland MT, Trapp NT, McCormick LM, Jareczek FJ, Zanaty M, Close LN, Beeghly J, Greenlee JDW.Front Psychiatry. 2020 Feb 28;11:55. SUMMARY: 9 severely …
Individual white matter bundle trajectories are associated with deep brain stimulation response in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Liebrand LC, Caan MWA, Schuurman PR, van den Munckhof P, Figee M, Denys D, van Wingen GA. Brain Stimul. 2019 Mar – Apr;12(2):353-360. SUMMARY: The …