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Dennis A Turner¹

¹Department of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

World Neurosurgery

|May 29, 2012

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Keywords:

Behavioral disorders CNS Central nervous system Chronic pain DBS Deep brain stimulation Epilepsy Functional stereotaxy Movement disorders STN Subthalamic nucleus Subthalamus (ventral thalamus)Vc Ventrocaudal

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