Dallapiazza RF, Lee DJ, De Vloo P, Fomenko A, Hamani C, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Fasano A, Lozano AM. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Oct 18. Surgical procedures that are used to treat essential tremor (ET) include DBS and thalamotomy …
Huotarinen A, Kivisaari R, Hariz M. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2018 Oct 2:1-5. Laitinen, the father of the resurrection of surgery for PD (pallidotomy) and a pioneer of functional neurosurgery was known to have performed cingulotomy in psychiatric patients. In his …
Mitchell KT, Larson P, Starr PA, Okun MS, Wharen RE Jr, Uitti RJ, Guthrie BL, Peichel D, Pahwa R, Walker HC, Foote K, Marshall FJ, Jankovic J, Simpson R, Phibbs F, Neimat JS, Stewart RM, Dashtipour K, Ostrem JL. Parkinsonism …
Mahlknecht P, Georgiev D, Akram H, Brugger F, Vinke S, Zrinzo L, Hariz M, Bhatia KP, Hariz GM, Willeit P, Rothwell JC, Foltynie T, Limousin P. Brain. 2018 Oct 1;141(10):3023-3034. It has been suggested that GPi DBS in dystonia may …
GBD 2016 Parkinson’s Disease Collaborators. Lancet Neurol 2018; 17: 939–53 Neurological disorders are now the leading source of disability globally, and ageing is increasing the burden of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease. The global burden of Parkinson’s disease was evaluated …
Zhang C, Zhang Y, Zhan S, Li D, Jin H, Denys D, Sun B. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2018;96(4):272-273. Web-based remote wireless DBS programming systems are provided by two DBS manufacturers (PINS and SceneRay) and are currently applied to patient care …
Balint B, Mencacci NE, Valente EM, Pisani A, Rothwell J, Jankovic J, Vidailhet M, Bhatia KP. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2018 Sep 20;4(1):25. COMMENTS: This is an extensive Nature review primer if you wish to learn everything about dystonia (classification, …
Sitnikov AR, Grigoryan YA, Mishnyakova LP. Surg Neurol Int. 2018 Jul 19;9:137.’ Anterior nucleus of thalamus (ANT) DBS was performed in 12 patients. Bilateral radiofrequency lesions of ANT were performed in 19 patients. Both groups were similar in age, gender, …
Barbe MT, Reker P, Hamacher S, Franklin J, Kraus D, Dembek TA, Becker J, Steffen JK, Allert N, Wirths J, Dafsari HS, Voges J, Fink GR, Visser-Vandewalle V, Timmermann L. DBS of the PSA and the VIM in essential tremor …
Telkes I, Viswanathan A, Jimenez-Shahed J, Abosch A, Ozturk M, Gupte A, Jankovic J, Ince NF. Local field potentials of subthalamic nucleus contain electrophysiological footprints of motor subtypes of Parkinson’s disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Aug …