Brain stimulation methods for pain treatment
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Pain Brain stimulation in the treatment of pain
Index FOREWORD For both the scientific and the clinical communities, the excitement generated by translational research is proportionate to the complexity and generalizability of the science and the potential clinical payoff down the road. From this perspective, the work now being done to translate techniques of brain stimulation to the realm of pain management is exciting indeed. The overarchi...
متن کاملTreatment of cancer pain with noninvasive brain stimulation.
To the Editor: Although therapeutics for the treatment of pain have developed considerably in the last few years, they still may fail to alleviate pain in cancer patients or become associated with significant undesirable side effects. Pain because of pancreatic cancer may be an example of such an instance. Patients with locally advanced or advanced pancreatic cancer often require increasing dos...
متن کاملDeep brain stimulation for chronic pain.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical intervention popularised in movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, and also reported to improve symptoms of epilepsy, Tourette's syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorders and cluster headache. Since the 1950s, DBS has been used as a treatment to relieve intractable pain of several aetiologies including post stroke pain, phantom limb pain, ...
متن کاملPallidaldeep brain stimulation for the treatment of DYT6 dystonia: a case report and review of literature
Little is known about the results of pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) in DYT6 dystonia. This will be the first report of DYT6 dystonia treated with pallidal DBS from Iran. A 21 years old male patient with DYT6 dystonia underwent bilateral deep brain stimulation. The target of DBS was the sensorimotor region of the posteroventralglobuspallidusinternus (GPi). DBS parameters included an amp...
متن کاملBrain Stimulation Methods for Treating Depression
Well into the 1970s, we psychiatrists believed that depression came from anger turned inward-and we acted on this notion. Psychiatrists spent countless hours trying to get depressed patients to talk about their anger. Enterprising psychologists and psychiatrists devised schemes to make such patients angry. As a medical student, I watched from behind a one-way mirror as a hospitalized depressed ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: General physiology and biophysics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1338-4325
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2018027