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The International Deep Brain Stimulation Registry And Database For Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome: How Does It Work?, Wissam Deeb, Peter J. Rossi, Mauro Porta, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Domenico Servello, Peter Silburn, Terry Coyne, James F. Leckman, Thomas Foltynie, Marwan Hariz, Eileen M. Joyce, Ludvic Zrinzo, Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Marie-Laure Welter, Carine Karachi, Luc Mallet, Jean-Luc Houeto, Joohi Shahed-Jimenez, Fan-Gang Meng, Brian T. Klassen, Alan Y. Mogilner, Michael H. Pourfar, Jens Kuhn, L. Ackermans, Takanobu Kaido, Yasin Temel, Robert E. Gross, Harrison C. Walker, Andres M. Lozano, Suketu M. Khandhar, Benjamin L. Walter, Ellen Walter, Zoltan Mari, Barbara K. Changizi, Elena Moro, Juan C. Baldermann, Daniel Huys, S. Elizabeth Zauber, Lauren E. Schrock, Jian-Guo Zhang, Wei Hu, Kelly D. Foote, Kyle Rizer, Jonathan W. Mink, Douglas W. Woods, Aysegul Gunduz, Michael S. Okun

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disease characterized by a combination of motor and vocal tics. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already widely utilized for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, is an emerging therapy for select and severe cases of TS that are resistant to medication and behavioral therapy. Over the last two decades, DBS has been used experimentally to manage severe TS cases. The results of case reports and small case series have been variable but in general positive. The reported interventions have, however, been variable, and there remain non-standardized selection criteria, various brain targets, differences in hardware, as …