Correction to: The effect of fornix deep brain stimulation in brain diseases

O10: Deep Brain Stimulation and Psychiatry

The use of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders has received great interest owing to the small risk of the operation, the reversible nature of the technique, and the possibility of optimizing treatment postoperatively. Currently deep brain stimulation in psychiatry is investigated for obsessive-compulsive disorder, Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome and major depression. This presentat...

Modulation of hippocampal activity with fornix Deep Brain Stimulation

BACKGROUND Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) within the Papez circuit is under investigation as a treatment for epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. We previously reported the effects of stimulation at nodes within this network (anterior thalamic nucleus and hippocampus) on hippocampal activity in a large animal model, using a chronic implantable, clinical-grade system that permits concurrent stimulati...

Memory enhancement induced by hypothalamic/fornix deep brain stimulation.

Bilateral hypothalamic deep brain stimulation was performed to treat a patient with morbid obesity. We observed, quite unexpectedly, that stimulation evoked detailed autobiographical memories. Associative memory tasks conducted in a double-blinded "on" versus "off" manner demonstrated that stimulation increased recollection but not familiarity-based recognition, indicating a functional engageme...

Letter to Editor: Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients with Chronic Movement Disorders

Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorder Diseases

Movement Disorder Disease (MDD) is one general type of diseases that severely impair human motor ability and reduce the body controllability. Over millions of people in North America are suffering from these diseases and Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most typical and common among them. PD is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, affecting over 500,000 people in America a...