Will deep-brain stimulation be as successful in major depression as it has been in Parkinson's disease?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1363-1365

  Kuhn, Jens ^a   Huff, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

deep brain stimulation; major depression; mental disorders; nucleus accumbens; subcallosal cingulate gyrus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CINGULATE GYRUS; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 77956482166     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.80     Document Type: Editorial

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