Tourette syndrome deep brain stimulation: a review and updated recommendations

LE Schrock, JW Mink, DW Woods, M Porta… - Movement …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may improve disabling tics in severely affected medication
and behaviorally resistant Tourette syndrome (TS). Here we review all reported cases of TS …

European clinical guidelines for Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders—version 2.0. Part IV: deep brain stimulation

N Szejko, Y Worbe, A Hartmann… - European Child & …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In 2011 the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS)
published its first European clinical guidelines for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome (TS) …

Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: where we are now

DR Cleary, A Ozpinar, AM Raslan, AL Ko - Neurosurgical focus, 2015 - thejns.org
Fossil records showing trephination in the Stone Age provide evidence that humans have
sought to influence the mind through physical means since before the historical record …

Target-specific effects of deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Wehmeyer, T Schueller, J Kiess, P Heiden… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Extended research has pointed to the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)
in treatment of patients with treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome (TS). The four most …

Toward sophisticated basal ganglia neuromodulation: review on basal ganglia deep brain stimulation

C Da Cunha, SL Boschen, A Gómez-a, EK Ross… - Neuroscience & …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the roles of the basal ganglia (BG) in
action-selection, cognition, and motivation, and how this knowledge has been used to …

Deep brain stimulation in Tourette's syndrome: evidence to date

SCB Casagrande, RG Cury, EJL Alho… - … disease and treatment, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that comprises vocal and motor
tics associated with a high frequency of psychiatric comorbidities, which has an important …

Motor improvement and emotional stabilization in patients with Tourette syndrome after deep brain stimulation of the ventral anterior and ventrolateral motor part of the …

D Huys, C Bartsch, P Koester, D Lenartz, M Maarouf… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Since its first application in 1999, the potential benefit of deep brain stimulation
(DBS) in reducing symptoms of otherwise treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome (TS) has …

Deep brain stimulation as a tool for improving cognitive functioning in Alzheimer's dementia: a systematic review

K Hardenacke, E Shubina, CP Bührle, A Zapf… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established, in selected cases therapeutically effective,
non-lesional treatment method delivering current rectangular pulses into dysfunctional brain …

Chronic unilateral stimulation of the nucleus accumbens at high or low frequencies attenuates relapse to cocaine seeking in an animal model

J Hamilton, J Lee, JJ Canales - Brain stimulation, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS), a form of neurosurgical intervention that is used
to modulate the electrophysiological activity of specific brain areas, has emerged as a form …

Deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome: a single-center series

RS Dowd, M Pourfar, AY Mogilner - Journal of neurosurgery, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Tourette syndrome (TS) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized
by multiple motor and phonic tics. While pharmacological and behavioral therapy can be …