Personal and relational changes following deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: A prospective qualitative study with patients and caregivers

CJ Thomson, RA Segrave, PB Fitzgerald… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Objective Deep brain stimulation (DBS) and whether it alters patient personality is a much-
debated topic within academic literature, yet rarely explored with those directly involved …

[HTML][HTML] “Nothing to Lose, Absolutely Everything to Gain”: Patient and Caregiver Expectations and Subjective Outcomes of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment …

CJ Thomson, RA Segrave, PB Fitzgerald… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: How “success” is defined in clinical trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for
refractory psychiatric conditions has come into question. Standard quantitative …

Deflating the deep brain stimulation causes personality changes bubble: the authors reply

F Gilbert, JN M Viana, C Ineichen - Neuroethics, 2021 - Springer
To conclude that there is enough or not enough evidence demonstrating that deep brain
stimulation (DBS) causes unintended postoperative personality changes is an epistemic …

Parkinson's disease and deep brain stimulation have an impact on my life: a multimodal study on the experiences of patients and family caregivers

YM Chacón Gámez, F Brugger… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) has a large impact on patients' physical and mental health, which
also greatly affects their family caregivers. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as an …

Dimensions of the threat to the self posed by deep brain stimulation: Personal identity, authenticity, and autonomy

P Zawadzki - Diametros, 2021 - ceeol.com
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an invasive therapeutic method involving the implantation
of electrodes and the electrical stimulation of specific areas of the brain to modulate their …

Illness representations and coping strategies in patients treated with deep brain stimulation for parkinson's disease

M Baertschi, N Favez… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
There is a debate on possible alterations of self-identity following deep brain stimulation for
neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease. Among the psychological variables …