Mood stability during acute stimulator challenge in Parkinson's disease patients under long-term treatment with subthalamic deep brain stimulation

✍ Scribed by Alexandre Berney; Michel Panisset; Abbas F. Sadikot; Alain Ptito; Alain Dagher; Maria Fraraccio; Ghislaine Savard; Marc Pell; Chawki Benkelfat

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-3185
• DOI: 10.1002/mds.21245

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Acute and chronic behavioral effects of subthalamic stimulation (STN‐DBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD) are reported in the literature. As the technique is relatively new, few systematic studies on the behavioral effects in long‐term treated patients are available. To further study the putative effects of STN‐DBS on mood and emotional processing, 15 consecutive PD patients under STN‐DBS for at least 1 year, were tested ON and OFF stimulation while on or off medication, with instruments sensitive to short‐term changes in mood and in emotional discrimination. After acute changes in experimental conditions, mood core dimensions (depression, elation, anxiety) and emotion discrimination processing remained remarkably stable, in the face of significant motor changes. Acute stimulator challenge in long‐term STN‐DBS–treated PD patients does not appear to provoke clinically relevant mood effects. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society