title: Deep brain stimulation for epilepsy in clinical practice and in animal models.
abstract: Given the tremendous success of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, clinicians have begun to open up to the possible use of electrical stimulation for the treatment of patients with uncontrolled seizures. DBS of various neural targets has been investigated in clinical studies and animal studies, including the anterior nucleus of thalamus (ANT), cerebellum, hippocampus, subthalamic nucleus (STN), centromedian nucleus of the thalamus (CMT), caudate nucleus (CN). Recently, a large and multicenter trial (SANTE: Stimulation of the Anterior Nucleus of the Thalamus for Epilepsy) was conducted and subsequently with encouraging results, making ANT the most well-established target for DBS in the treatment of epilepsy to date. Here, we endeavor to review mainly the animal studies and clinical studies of ANT DBS to further explore the more reliable target.
authors: Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, No. 5 Donghai Middle Road, Qingdao 266071, PR China.
authors: Xiao-Ling
authors: XL
authors: Zhong
authors: Jin-Tai
authors: JT
authors: Yu
authors: Qun
authors: Q
authors: Zhang
authors: Nai-Dong
authors: ND
authors: Wang
authors: Lan
authors: L
authors: Tan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D046690:Deep Brain Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans