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Targeting pain with deep brain stimulation: Insights into the thalamus and associated structures

Deep Brain Stimulation
Chronic pain is a major public health issue, and despite advances in understanding its pathophysiology, current treatments remain insufficient, significantly affecting patients' quality of life.
Rabia Bouali-Benazzouz, Pascal Fossat, Abdelhamid Benazzouz   +2 more
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Making Waves in the Brain: What Are Oscillations, and Why Modulating Them Makes Sense for Brain Injury. [PDF]

, 2016
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in persistent cognitive, behavioral and emotional deficits. However, the vast majority of patients are not chronically hospitalized; rather they have to manage their disabilities once they are discharged to home ...
Gurkoff, Gene G, Izadi, Ali, Lee, Darrin J, Pevzner, Aleksandr, Shahlaie, Kiarash   +4 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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Deep brain stimulation for management of treatment-refractory schizophrenia: A translational review for clinical integration

Deep Brain Stimulation
Background and hypothesis: With a typical clinical onset in late adolescence and early adulthood, schizophrenia is a severe illness and one of the top ten global causes of disability.
Cristina D. Ghinda, Ryan Johnson, Ankur A. Butala, Kelly A. Mills, Nicola G. Cascella, William S. Anderson   +5 more
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Effect of sevoflurane on neuronal activity during deep brain stimulation surgery for epilepsy: A case report

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2018
Deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus is an effective treatment for patients with refractory epilepsy who do not respond sufficiently to medical therapy.
Michaël J. Bos, MD, Linda Ackermans, MD, PhD, Frédéric L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, Rob P.W. Rouhl, MD, PhD, Vivianne H.J.M. van Kranen-Mastenbroek, MD, PhD, Wolfgang F. Buhre, MD, PhD, Marcus L.F. Janssen, MD, PhD   +6 more
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Human Sensation of Transcranial Electric Stimulation. [PDF]

, 2019
Noninvasive transcranial electric stimulation is increasingly being used as an advantageous therapy alternative that may activate deep tissues while avoiding drug side-effects. However, not only is there limited evidence for activation of deep tissues by
Richardson, Matthew, Sun, Shuping, Tran, Phillip, Xu, Yuchen, Zeng, Fan-Gang   +4 more
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Maintenance deep transcranial magnetic stimulation sessions are associated with reduced depressive relapses in patients with unipolar or bipolar depression [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) is a new form of TMS allowing safe stimulation of deep brain regions. The objective of this preliminary study was to assess the role of dTMS maintenance sessions in protecting patients with ...
ANGELETTI, Gloria, BERSANI, FRANCESCO SAVERIO, DEL CASALE, ANTONIO, DI PIETRO, SIMONE, Ferri, Vittoria R., GIRARDI, Paolo, Imperatori, Claudio, KOTZALIDIS, GEORGIOS, Raccah, Ruggero N., RAPINESI, CHIARA, SERATA, DANIELE, Zangen, Abraham   +11 more
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Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often exhibit early deficits in muscle and movement competence, which can compromise long‐term health. Integrative neuromuscular training (INT), a multifaceted approach combining fundamental movement activities with strength exercises, may help address these deficits during ...
Anna Maria Markarian, Robert U. Newton, Dennis R. Taaffe, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Santosh Valvi, Carolyn J. Peddle‐McIntyre, Jodie Cochrane Wilkie, Daniel A. Galvão   +7 more
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Contribution of animal models to DBS research in movement and psychiatric disorders: A review

Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has evolved through a dynamic interplay between clinical and pre-clinical research. Initially inspired by invasive clinical practices such as ablations, resections, and other lesion-based interventions, minimally-invasive ...
David Dominguez-Paredes, Berkhan Genc, Yasin Temel, Ali Jahanshahi   +3 more
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Surgical management of adverse events associated with deep brain stimulation: A single-center experience

SAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Objectives: Deep brain stimulation is widely used to treat movement disorders and selected neuropsychiatric disorders. Despite the fact, the surgical methods vary among centers.
Masani Nonaka, Takashi Morishita, Kazumichi Yamada, Shinsuke Fujioka, Masa-aki Higuchi, Yoshio Tsuboi, Hiroshi Abe, Tooru Inoue   +7 more
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