Commentary: Using Directional Deep Brain Stimulation to Co-activate the Subthalamic Nucleus and Zona Incerta for Overlapping Essential Tremor/Parkinson's Disease Symptoms

Chengyuan Wu; Caio Matias

doi:10.3389/fneur.2019.00854

Commentary: Using Directional Deep Brain Stimulation to Co-activate the Subthalamic Nucleus and Zona Incerta for Overlapping Essential Tremor/Parkinson's Disease Symptoms

Front Neurol. 2019 Sep 6:10:854. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00854. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Chengyuan Wu^{1

2}, Caio Matias^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
² Department of Radiology, Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; anatomy; deep brain stimulation; directional leads; essential tremor; stimulation side effects; volume of tissue activation; zona incerta.

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