M Negri, M Gorgora, J A Nasser, J I Salles, Silmar Teixeira, Oscar Arias-Carrión, João Junqueira, Eduardo Nicoliche, Bruna Velasques, Mauricio Cagy, Henning Budde, Luis F Basile, M Orsini, Roy Friede, Victor Hugo Bastos, P Ribeiro
Chronic deep brain stimulation (CDBS) is a surgical treatment that reduces the cardinal signs of Parkinson's disease (PD). Although CDBS has been in use for a long time, very little has been reported on its supposed effects on cognition, particularly in relation to implants in the subthalamic nucleus. The results of the rare studies that do exist are controversial, and in many cases the studies have several design flaws. The present study compared cortical activation during three tasks (action execution, action observation and motor imagery) in PD patients with and without subthalamic implants...
2019: Functional Neurology