Journal article
Possible seizure suppression via deep brain stimulation of the thalamic ventralis oralis posterior nucleus.
- Abstract:
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Surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy with deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been shown to be of therapeutic benefit in some patients and with the recent publication of a randomised control study its use is likely to increase in the future. We describe a patient who developed a focal epileptic seizure within a few seconds of momentarily turning off the DBS stimulator in the nucleus ventralis oralis posterior, with which she was successfully treated for tremor. The seizure was the result o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 972-973
- Publication date:
- 2011-07-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1532-2653
- ISSN:
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0967-5868
- Source identifiers:
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141670
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:141670
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- pubs:141670
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2011
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