Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) or globus pallidum internus
(GPi) improves motor functions in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) but may cause a …

Retinit is pigmentosa is an incurable degenerative disease that causes loss of light-sensitive
cells in the retina and leads to severe vision impairment. The development of optogenetics …

Abstract Device-aided therapies (DAT), which include deep brain stimulation and pump-
based continuous dopaminergic stimulation with either levodopa or apomorphine, are …

Importance Establishing a formal definition for neurological device abandonment has the
potential to reduce or to prevent the occurrence of this abandonment. Objective To perform a …

Hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTRv) is an autosomal dominant, systemic
disease transmitted by amyloidogenic mutations in the TTR gene. To prevent the otherwise …

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to directly bridge the human brain and the outside
world through acquiring and processing the brain signals in real time. In recent two decades …

In 2020, more than 9 million patients suffering from ParkinsonLs disease (PD) were reported
worldwide, and studies predict that the burden of this disease will grow substantially in …

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are a transdisciplinary field of, but not limited to, brain
science and artificial intelligence. It can be divided into invasive, semi-invasive, and non …

To conclude that there is enough or not enough evidence demonstrating that deep brain
stimulation (DBS) causes unintended postoperative personality changes is an epistemic …

Skin erosion is a hardware-related complication commonly described after deep brain
stimulation (DBS). Hardware exposure is often associated with the development of infection …