ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
Deep Brain Stimulation of the Forel's Field for Dystonia: Preliminary Results.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Mechanism and progress of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.MedScience · 2026Review
- Optimal Deep Brain Stimulation Locations for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Catheter-based polarimetric imaging to complement MRI for deep brain stimulation neurosurgery.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- Engaging dystonia networks with subthalamic stimulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Brain network pathophysiology in dystonia.Dystonia (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor versus essential tremor plus: should we target the same spot in the thalamus?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Editorial: All roads lead to Rome: Harnessing thalamic neuromodulation for difficult-to-treat neurological disorders.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Unilateral pallidothalamic tractotomy at Forel's field H1 for cervical dystonia.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The field of Forel (FF) is a subthalamic area through which the pallidothalamic tracts originating from the globus pallidus internus (GPi) traverse. The FF was used as a stereotactic surgical target (ablation and stimulation) to treat cervical dystonia in the 1960s and 1970s. Although recent studies have reappraised the ablation and stimulation of the pallidothalamic tract at FF for Parkinson's disease, the efficacy of deep brain stimulation of FF (FF-DBS) for dystonia has not been well investigated. To confirm the efficacy and stimulation-induced adverse effects of FF-DBS, three consecutive patients with medically refractory dystonia who underwent FF-DBS were analyzed (tongue protrusion dystonia, cranio-cervico-axial dystonia, and hemidystonia). Compared to the Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale-Movement Scale scores before surgery (23.3 ± 12.7), improvements were observed at 1 week (8.3 ± 5.9), 3 months (5.3 ± 5.9), and 6 months (4.7 ± 4.7,
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