Neurosurgical Treatments of Depression

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 327-339

  Temel, Yasin ^a   Lim, Lee Wei ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ablative surgery; Deep brain stimulation; Neurosurgery; Treatment resistant depression; Vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CINGULECTOMY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC LEUCOTOMY; LOBOTOMY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSURGERY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; SUBCAUDATE TRACTOTOMY; SUPRAORBITAL CORTICAL UNDERCUTTING; SURGICAL APPROACH; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; HUMANS; PSYCHOSURGERY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84880061071     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2012_222     Document Type: Review

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