Mathilde Boussac, Christophe Arbus, Helene Klinger, Alexandre Eusebio, Elodie Hainque, Jean Christophe Corvol, Olivier Rascol, Vanessa Rousseau, Estelle Harroch, Charlotte Scotto d'Apollonia, Aurélie Croiset, Fabienne Ory-Magne, Amaury De Barros, Margherita Fabbri, Caroline Moreau, Anne-Sophie Rolland, Isabelle Benatru, Mathieu Anheim, Ana-Raquel Marques, David Maltête, Sophie Drapier, Béchir Jarraya, Cécile Hubsch, Dominique Guehl, Mylène Meyer, Tiphaine Rouaud, Bruno Giordana, Mélissa Tir, David Devos, Christine Brefel-Courbon
BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation of the sub-thalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) reduces symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with motor fluctuations. However, some patients may not feel ameliorated afterwards, despite an objective motor improvement. It is thus important to find new predictors of patients' quality of life (QoL) amelioration after DBS-STN. We hypothesized that personality dimensions might affect QoL after DBS-STN. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate associations between personality dimensions and QoL improvement one year after DBS-STN...
2022: Journal of Parkinson's Disease