
iPlant Scientific and Ethical Issues Related to DBS for Disorders of Mood, Behaviour and Thought via Anibal Monasterio Astobiza
Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A two-day consensus conference was held in order to examine scientific and ethical issues in the application of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of mood and behavioral disorders such as major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette syndrome. The primary objectives of the confe...

Source: www.nature.com
(...) Here, we review modern lesion procedures and DBS for OCD in the context of neurocircuitry. A key issue is that clinical benefit can be obtained after surgeries targeting different brain structures. This fits well with anatomical models, in which circuits connecting orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ...

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Chris prepares his talk at the International Neuromodulation Society 2009 conference in Seoul, South Korea
Powerpoint for the talk:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=d cdz9gxp_914d9bhqkg3
Associated poster:
http://www.iplant.eu/INS2009.pdf
YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfNOY-Ejd Hw

iPlant Blogpost about a recent paper in which DBS was used to treat severe alcoholism..

Gediminas Luksys
I guess you guys should like this link:
http://www.oxytocin.org/
;)

iPlant This video describes how to combine two well-established technologies - deep brain stimulation to the human reward system and conditional rewarding brain stimulation - to make iPlants.

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This video describes the working memory function of the prefrontal cortex and the maintenance of its neuronal groups by dopamine.
For more information visit http://www.iplant.eu/monoamine.html

iPlant Hand-held controllers give patients limited control of their deep brain stimulation implants stimulation parameters http://bit.ly/A0DN7

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This video describes rewarding brain stimulation.
For references and more information visit http://www.iplant.eu/rbs.html






















