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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder—Discontinuation of Ongoing Stimulation

  • Hannah M. Kilian,
  • Bettina H. Bewernick,
  • Margaretha Klein,
  • Dora M. Meyer and ,
  • Susanne Spanier,
  • Peter C. Reinacher,
  • Volker A. Coenen and
  • Thomas E. Schlaepfer
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 August 2020

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is currently under research for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Since the application of DBS in psychiatry has been in use for ab...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
15 Citations
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18 Pages

“The Heart Asks Pleasure First”—Conceptualizing Psychiatric Diseases as MAINTENANCE Network Dysfunctions through Insights from slMFB DBS in Depression and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

  • Volker A. Coenen,
  • Thomas E. Schlaepfer,
  • Bastian E. A. Sajonz,
  • Peter C. Reinacher and ,
  • Máté D. Döbrössy and
  • Marco Reisert
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

More than a decade ago, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the superolateral medial forebrain bundle (slMFB), as part of the greater MFB system, had been proposed as a putative yet experimental treatment strategy for therapy refractory depression (TRD)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Dopaminergic Neurons and Their Role in Depression)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
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20 Pages

In Search for a Pathogenesis of Major Depression and Suicide—A Joint Investigation of Dopamine and Fiber Tract Anatomy Focusing on the Human Ventral Mesencephalic Tegmentum: Description of a Workflow

  • Jana M. Zielinski,
  • Marco Reisert,
  • Bastian E. A. Sajonz,
  • Shi Jia Teo and ,
  • Annette Thierauf-Emberger,
  • Johanna Wessolleck,
  • Maximilian Frosch,
  • Björn Spittau,
  • Jochen Leupold and
  • Volker A. Coenen
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is prevalent with a high subjective and socio-economic burden. Despite the effectiveness of classical treatment methods, 20–30% of patients stay treatment-resistant. Deep Brain Stimulation of the superolateral br...

(This article belongs to the Section Neuropsychiatry)