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The ethics of deep brain stimulation (DBS).
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- Current Neuroethical Perspectives on Deep Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Scoping Review of the Past 10 Years.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Ethical considerations in the surgical and neuromodulatory treatment of epilepsy.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2022Review
- Evaluation of electrochemical methods for tonic dopamine detectionTrends in analytical chemistry : TRAC · 2020Article
- DBS: a compelling example for ethical and legal reflection-a French perspective on ethical and legal concerns about DBS.Monash bioethics review · 2020Article
- Modulation of Human Memory by Deep Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry.Neuron · 2020Review
- Patient's lived experience with DBS between medical research and care: some legal implications.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2019Article
- [Brain stimulation for the selective treatment of schizophrenia symptom domains : Non-invasive and invasive concepts].Der Nervenarzt · 2019Article
- Brainjacking in deep brain stimulation and autonomy.Ethics and information technology · 2018Article
- Autonomy in Depressive Patients Undergoing DBS-Treatment: Informed Consent, Freedom of Will and DBS' Potential to Restore It.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2017Article
- Rescue Procedures after Suboptimal Deep Brain Stimulation Outcomes in Common Movement Disorders.Brain sciences · 2016Review
- Deep Brain Stimulation for Obesity.Cureus · 2015Review
- What will this do to me and my brain? Ethical issues in brain-to-brain interfacing.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2015Article
- A Commentary on: "Preserving cortico-striatal function: Deep Brain Stimulation in Huntington's disease".Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an invasive technique designed to stimulate certain deep brain regions for therapeutic purposes and is currently used mainly in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. However, DBS is also used increasingly for other experimental applications, such as the treatment of psychiatric disorders (e.g. severe depression), weight reduction. Apart from its therapeutic potential, DBS can cause severe adverse effects, some that might also have a significant impact on the patient's personality and autonomy by the external stimulation of DBS which effects lie beyond the individual's control and free will. The article's purpose is to outline the procedures of DBS currently used in therapeutic and experimental applications and to discuss the ethical concerns regarding this procedure. It will address the clinical benefit-risk-ratio, the particular ethics of research in this field, and the ethical issues raised by affecting a patient's or an individual's personality and autonomous behaviour. Moreover, a potential ethical guideline, the Ulysses contract is discussed for the field of clinical application as well as the question of responsibility.
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