Markus A. Hobert

Disease Duration Differentiates Freezing of Gait Response to Subthalamic and Nigral Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease in an Exploratory Multicenter Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND: Freezing of gait (FoG) belongs to most pressing unmet symptoms in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. OBJECTIVES: To explore whether combined subthalamic and nigral (STN + SNr) deep brain stimulation improves FoG compared with optimized STN stimulation alone; to ide...