Incoming ethical issues for deep brain stimulation: When long-term treatment leads to a 'new form of the disease'

F Gilbert, M Lancelot - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been regarded as an efficient and safe treatment for
Parkinson's disease (PD) since being approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …

Deep brain stimulation and the ethics of protection and caring for the patient with Parkinson's dementia

S Farris, P Ford, J DeMarco… - … disorders: official journal …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective neurosurgical treatment for patients with
advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) suffering from motor complications that are refractory to …

Ethical brain stimulation–neuroethics of deep brain stimulation in research and clinical practice

J Clausen - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a clinically established procedure for treating severe motor
symptoms in patients suffering from end‐stage Parkinson's disease, dystonia and essential …

[HTML][HTML] Adverse events in deep brain stimulation: A retrospective long-term analysis of neurological, psychiatric and other occurrences

C Buhmann, T Huckhagel, K Engel, A Gulberti… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background and objective The extent to which deep brain stimulation (DBS) can improve
quality of life may be perceived as a permanent trade-off between neurological …

Hope and patients' expectations in deep brain stimulation: healthcare providers' perspectives and approaches

E Bell, B Maxwell, MP McAndrews… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this article we report relevant data that shed light on the topic of hope and patients'
expectations in the use of DBS, for standard, approved, and established indications, based …

Unexpected complications of novel deep brain stimulation treatments: ethical issues and clinical recommendations

H Maslen, B Cheeran, J Pugh, L Pycroft… - … : Technology at the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Innovative neurosurgical treatments present a number of known risks, the
natures and probabilities of which can be adequately communicated to patients via the …

The ethics of deep brain stimulation (DBS)

M Unterrainer, FS Oduncu - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2015 - Springer
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an invasive technique designed to stimulate certain deep
brain regions for therapeutic purposes and is currently used mainly in patients with …

Deep brain stimulation and ethics: perspectives from a multisite qualitative study of Canadian neurosurgical centers

E Bell, B Maxwell, MP McAndrews, A Sadikot… - World Neurosurgery, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an approved neurosurgical intervention for
motor disorders such as Parkinson disease. The emergence of psychiatric uses for DBS …

Early application of deep brain stimulation: clinical and ethical aspects

C Woopen, KAM Pauls, A Koy, E Moro… - Progress in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proven to be a successful therapeutic approach in several
patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia. Hitherto its …

Neuroethical implications of deep brain stimulation in degenerative disorders

D Ovadia, G Bottini - Current opinion in neurology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Applying the principles for the ethical assessment of new treatments in biomedicine to the
use of DBS in cognitive impairment and especially in memory loss, we conclude that any …