Edited by
Daniel Tarsy
Jerrold L. Vitek
Philip A. Starr
Michael S. Okun

2008

Chronic deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been a rapidly evolving area of neurotherapeutics since its initial introduction for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor in the 1990s. For these conditions, DBS is now considered accepted therapy for patients failing to adequately respond to medical treatment.