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ArticleBrain sciences2019

Applying a Sensing-Enabled System for Ensuring Safe Anterior Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain.

Yongzhi Huang, Binith Cheeran, Alexander L Green, Timothy J Denison, Tipu Z Aziz

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Article in Brain sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Closing the loop in psychiatric deep brain stimulation: physiology, psychometrics, and plasticity.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  3. Physiologically informed neuromodulation.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022
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  4. Translational aspects of deep brain stimulation for chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yongzhi HuangOxford Functional Neurosurgery Group, Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2503-1589
Binith CheeranOxford Functional Neurosurgery Group, Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
Alexander L GreenOxford Functional Neurosurgery Group, Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
Timothy J DenisonInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK. timothy.denison@eng.ox.ac.uk.
Tipu Z AzizOxford Functional Neurosurgery Group, Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. tipu.aziz@nds.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was offered to chronic pain patients who had exhausted medical and surgical options. However, several patients developed recurrent seizures. This work was conducted to assess the effect of ACC stimulation on the brain activity and to guide safe DBS programming. A sensing-enabled neurostimulator (Activa PC + S) allowing wireless recording through the stimulating electrodes was chronically implanted in three patients. Stimulation patterns with different amplitude levels and variable ramping rates were tested to investigate whether these patterns could provide pain relief without triggering after-discharges (ADs) within local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the ACC. In the absence of ramping, AD activity was detected following stimulation at amplitude levels below those used in chronic therapy. Adjustment of stimulus cycling patterns, by slowly ramping on/off (8-s ramp duration), was able to prevent ADs at higher amplitude levels while maintaining effective pain relief. The absence of AD activity confirmed from the implant was correlated with the absence of clinical seizures. We propose that AD activity in the ACC could be a biomarker for the likelihood of seizures in these patients, and the application of sensing-enabled techniques has the potential to advance safer brain stimulation therapies, especially in novel targets.

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after-dischargeanterior cingulate cortexchronic paindeep brain stimulationlocal field potentialseizures

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PMID31247982
PMCPMC6680545
OpenAlexW2953571559

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