Deep brain stimulation of the centromedian nucleus for drug‐resistant epilepsy in children: Quality‐of‐life and functional outcomes from the <scp>CHILD</scp> ‐ <scp>DBS</scp> registry
CM-DBS can lead to reduction in seizure burden concurrent with improvements in quality of life and relevant functional outcomes in children with DRE. These findings further our understanding of the impact of CM-DBS on meaningful outcomes for children and caregivers.
Authors
- Carolina Gorodetsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0007-9591)
- Aristides Hadjinicolaou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9926-2080)
- Elizabeth Donner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1126-0548)
- Christian Iorio‐Morin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-7255)
- Jeffrey S. Raskin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1865-9888)
- Hiroshi Otsubo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-373X)
- Sara C. Breitbart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4162-2537)
- Elizabeth N. Kerr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9589-6502)
- Alfonso A. Fasano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-0180)
- Lauren Sham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-918X)
- Karim Mithani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8094-3070)
- Yousof Alrumayyan
- Nisha Gadgil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0215-0703)
- Hrishikesh Suresh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0412-5655)
- Alexander G. Weil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4162-6096)
- George M. Ibrahim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9068-8184)
- Farbod Niazi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9896-1616)
- Eriberto R Rayco
- Puneet Jain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6009-0859)
- Shelly Weiss
- Ayako Ochi
- Andrea LeBlanc‐Millar
Institutions
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
- Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Toronto Western Hospital (CA)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CA)
- Mental Health Research Canada (CA)
- Texas Children's Hospital (US)
- Ontario Brain Institute (CA)
- Krembil Brain Institute
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epilepsia
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.18393
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 15.28