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Internal Medicine • Neurology • Movement disorders • Psychiatry • Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
What are the recommendations for considering deep brain stimulation in a patient with tremors and dementia or mild cognitive impairment?
Does the approach differ if the tremor stems from essential tremor or Parkinson's disease?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
In PD, studies with the strongest quality of evidence show a slight decline in global cognition in patients undergoing STN-DBS compared to GPi-DBS or medical therapy. However, the majority of controlled clinical trials and observational studies do not find changes in global cognition among these gro...
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