To sleep or not to sleep during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson disease?

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¹ From the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (T.Z.A.), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington; Unit of Functional Neurosurgery (M.H.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (M.H.), Umeå University, Sweden. tipu.aziz@nds.ox.ac.uk.
² From the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (T.Z.A.), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington; Unit of Functional Neurosurgery (M.H.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (M.H.), Umeå University, Sweden.

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Tipu Z Aziz et al. Neurology. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 7;89(19):1938-1939.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004635. Epub 2017 Oct 6.

¹ From the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (T.Z.A.), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington; Unit of Functional Neurosurgery (M.H.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (M.H.), Umeå University, Sweden. tipu.aziz@nds.ox.ac.uk.
² From the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (T.Z.A.), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington; Unit of Functional Neurosurgery (M.H.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (M.H.), Umeå University, Sweden.

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Clinical outcomes of asleep vs awake deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease.
Brodsky MA, Anderson S, Murchison C, Seier M, Wilhelm J, Vederman A, Burchiel KJ. Brodsky MA, et al. Neurology. 2017 Nov 7;89(19):1944-1950. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004630. Epub 2017 Oct 6. Neurology. 2017. PMID: 28986415