Neurostimulation for vegetative status.

Neurostimulation

1MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, New York, NY, USA 2Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY, USA 3Department of Neurology, University Medical Hospital Bergmannsheil, 44789 Bochum, Germany 4Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, 44139 Dortmund, Germany 5D...

Neurostimulation for Pain

Computational neurostimulation for Parkinson's disease.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has had a remarkable success in treating a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions. However, efficacy remains suboptimal and patients can often develop side effects. The underlying causes of both the beneficial and detrimental effects of DBS remain incompletely understood which is delaying improvements to current DBS therapies and limiting developments of f...

Neurostimulation treatment for angina pectoris.

Despite the wealth of treatments available for the management of angina pectoris, a significant proportion of patients remain refractory. These patients seem to be survivors, so that an individual with refractory angina may suVer with it for many years; consequently patients with refractory angina pectoris usually require multiple admissions, often to expensive cardiac units. Recently transmyoc...

Neurostimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to provide an evidence-based update on the neurostimulation options available for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy in the United States and in European countries. RECENT FINDINGS The field of neurostimulation for epilepsy has grown dramatically since 1997, when vagus nerve stimulation became the first device to be approved for epilepsy by t...