Obesity is a growing global health problem frequently intractable to current treatment options.
Recent evidence suggests that deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be effective and safe in …

A consensus has yet to emerge whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-refractory
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be considered an established therapy. In 2014, …

Everyday tasks in social settings require humans to encode neural representations of not only
their own spatial location, but also the location of other individuals within an environment. …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the
treatment of epilepsy. There has been an explosion of research into implantable devices for …

Background Uncontrolled pilot studies have suggested the efficacy of focused ultrasound
thalamotomy with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance for the treatment of essential …

A major challenge in understanding the cellular diversity of the brain has been linking activity
during behavior with standard cellular typology. For example, it has not been possible to …

Background Unilateral focused ultrasound ablation of the internal segment of globus pallidus
has reduced motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in open-label studies. Methods We …

Cravings that precede loss of control (LOC) over food consumption present an opportunity
for intervention in patients with the binge eating disorder (BED). In this pilot study, we used …

Objective Laser interstitial thermal therapy ( LITT ) for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy ( mTLE
) has reported seizure freedom rates between 36% and 78% with at least 1 year of follow‐up…

Importance In the US and the United Kingdom, cocaine use is the second leading cause of
illicit drug overdose death. Psychosocial treatments for cocaine use disorder are limited, and …