Deep brain stimulation could be an effective treatment option for severe Tourette’s syndrome

Written by Hannah Makin

A recent study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery suggests that deep brain stimulation (DBS) could be used to treat the symptoms of severe Tourette’s syndrome (TS) in young adults. These findings support a growing body of literature for the use of DBS against TS, and may be the next important step towards its approval by the FDA. In this investigation, researchers at the New York University Langone Medical Center (NY, USA) performed a retrospective study on 13 patients who had undergone medial thalamic DBS. Patient assessments used the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) and enabled researchers to compare...

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