Treatment results: Parkinson's disease
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Pierre Pollak; ValΓ©rie Fraix; Paul Krack; Elena Moro; Alexandre Mendes; Stephan
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical treatment of Parkinson's disease that is applied to three targets: the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus (Vim), the globus pallidus internas (GPi) and the subthalamic nucleus (STN). Vim DBS mainly improves contralateral tremor and, therefore