Objective Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for pain has largely been implemented in an
uncontrolled manner to target the somatosensory component of pain, with research leading
to mixed results. We have previously shown that patients with poststroke pain syndrome who
were treated with DBS targeting the ventral striatum/anterior limb of the internal capsule
(VS/ALIC) demonstrated a significant improvement in measures related to the affective
sphere of pain. In this study, we sought to determine how DBS targeting the VS/ALIC …