Obesity and deep brain stimulation: an overview
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Obesity and deep brain stimulation: an overview
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been employed to treat a variety of disorders such as Parkinson disease, dystonia, and essential tremor. Newer indications such as epilepsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder have been added to the armamentarium. In this review, we present an initial summary of current methods in the management of obesity and then explore efforts in neuromodulation and DBS as a n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Neurosciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0972-7531,0976-3260
DOI: 10.5214/ans.0972.7531.220310