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Good vibrations with deep brain stimulation

Nature Neuroscience volume 18, pages 618–619 (2015)Cite this article

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Insight into the mechanism by which deep brain stimulation exerts its therapeutic effects comes from recording in motor cortical regions of neurosurgical subjects undergoing subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation.

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the subthalamic DBS and motor cortical recording.

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  1. Ziv M. Williams is in the Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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