Deep Brain Stimulation in Pathological Aggression
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Deep Brain Stimulation in Pathological Aggression.
BACKGROUND We describe a case of deep brain stimulation in a patient with severe aggression refractory to conservative treatment. The targets of the stimulation were set bilaterally in the posteromedial hypothalamus and - in a second procedure due to its ineffectiveness - in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) bilaterally. METHODS In the first stage, we implanted electrodes into the posteromedial hy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1011-6125,1423-0372
DOI: 10.1159/000431373