Tailoring and personalizing deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

While numerous studies over the past three decades have clarified that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is safe and effective for treating Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms,[1] it is not unusual to come across neurologists who are not yet acquainted with this technique.[2] Knowledge regarding DBS is not widely available in many neurology training centers, particularly in developing countries. This gap is in great part responsible for the disproportion between the number of PD patients to which surgery should be offered and the actual number of patients in which the surgery is actually and correctly performed.[2]