Fornix-Region Deep Brain Stimulation-Induced Memory Flashbacks in Alzheimer's Disease

N Engl J Med. 2019 Aug 22;381(8):783-785. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1905240.

Authors

Wissam Deeb¹, Bryan Salvato², Leonardo Almeida³, Kelly D Foote³, Robert Amaral⁴, Jurgen Germann⁴, Paul B Rosenberg⁵, David F Tang-Wai⁶, David A Wolk⁷, Anna D Burke⁸, Stephen Salloway⁹, Marwan N Sabbagh¹⁰, M Mallar Chakravarty⁴, Gwenn S Smith¹¹, Constantine G Lyketsos⁵, Andres M Lozano⁶, Michael S Okun³

Affiliations

¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL wissam.deeb@neurology.ufl.edu.
² Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
³ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
⁴ Douglas Mental Health University Research Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
⁶ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
⁸ Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ.
⁹ Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
¹⁰ Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV.
¹¹ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

Alzheimer Disease / physiopathology
Alzheimer Disease / psychology*
Corpus Callosum
Deep Brain Stimulation*
Fornix, Brain*
Humans
Male
Memory* / physiology

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