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Jaimie M Henderson1, Gary Heit, Robert S Fisher

  • 1Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford, CA, USA; The Permanente Medical Group, Department of Neurosurgery, Redwood City, CA, USA; and Stanford School of Medicine, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Stanford CA, USA.

Neuromodulation : Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society
|October 14, 2011
PubMed
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Motor cortex stimulation (MCS) for pain may cause seizures during or after programming, particularly at 70-90 Hz. While a risk, no patients developed chronic epilepsy from this treatment.

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