Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by Colin Watts
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 22 KB
- Volume
- 150
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6268
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Numerous factors need to be taken into account when implanting deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems into patients with Parkinson's disease. The surgical procedure itself can be divided into immediate preoperative, intraoperative, and immediate postoperative phases. Preoperative considerations includ
## Abstract Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) accelerates reaction time (RT) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly in tasks in which decisions on the response side have to be made. This might indicate that DBS speeds up both motor and nonmotor operation