Will adaptive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease become a real option soon? A Delphi consensus study

Abstract While conventional deep brain stimulation (cDBS) treatment delivers continuous electrical stimuli, new adaptive DBS (aDBS) technology provides dynamic symptom-related stimulation. Research data are promising, and devices are already available, but are we ready for it? We asked leading DBS e...

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Published in:npj Parkinson's Disease
Main Authors: Matteo Guidetti, Tommaso Bocci, Marta De Pedro Del Álamo, Guenther Deuschl, Alfonso Fasano, Raul Martinez-Fernandez, Carmen Gasca-Salas, Clement Hamani, Joachim K. Krauss, Andrea A. Kühn, Patricia Limousin, Simon Little, Andres M. Lozano, Natale V. Maiorana, Sara Marceglia, Michael S. Okun, Serena Oliveri, Jill L. Ostrem, Emma Scelzo, Alfons Schnitzler, Philip A. Starr, Yasin Temel, Lars Timmermann, Gerd Tinkhauser, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Jens Volkmann, Alberto Priori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-00974-5