Optimal Deep Brain Stimulation Locations for Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Our analyses identified tic response targets that followed the course of known structural projections interconnecting pallidum and thalamus.
Authors
- Zinovia Kefalopoulou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5310-9259)
- X X Xu
- Konstantin Butenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4509-4624)
- Abbas F. Sadikot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1491-2038)
- Alberto Ferreira Bona (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9409-7242)
- Nanditha Rajamani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2511-9839)
- Parent Martin
- Alberto Mazzoni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9632-1831)
- Christopher R. Butson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2319-1263)
- Christina van der Linden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2091-4638)
- Patricia Limousin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-5545)
- Simón Oxenford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2989-3861)
- Anouk Y.J.M. Smeets (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-1342)
- Barbara Hollunder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0104-6927)
- Garance M. Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3350-6070)
- Till A. Dembek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7023-146X)
- M. Mustin
- Linda Ackermans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4182-3420)
- Lukas L. Goede (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-185X)
- Ilkem Aysu Sahin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9951-374X)
- Albert F.G. Leentjens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-571X)
- Osvaldo Vilela-Filho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1360-1580)
- Zhipei Ling
- Anna Tietze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2601-9055)
- Patricia Zvarova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7831-8796)
- Fangang Meng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-1921)
- Kelly D. Foote
- Bomin Sun
- Michael Pourfar
- Rabea Schmahl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4877-0916)
- Jens Kuhn
- K. F. Johnson
- Anna C. von Olberg
- Ningfei Li
- Carine Karachi
- Petra Heiden
- Ludvic Zrinzo
- Alon Mogilner
- Jill Ostrem
- Jian-Guo Zhang
- Helen Friedrich
- Michael S. Okun
- Xinguang Yu
- Alida A. Postma
- Mauro Porta
- Yulia Worbe
- Pablo Andrade
- Veerle Visser-Vandewalle
- Marie-Laure Welter
- Eileen M Joyce
- Chencheng Zhang
- Clemens Neudorfer
- Luigi M. Romito
- Andres M. Lozano
- Nadya Pyatigorskaya
- Juan Carlos Baldermann
- Daniel Huys
- Wolf-Julian Neumann
- Thomas Foltynie
- Domenico Servello
- Andreas Horn
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- UF Health Shands Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT)
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Cologne (DE)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Maastricht University Medical Centre (NL)
- University of Florida Health (US)
- McGill University Health Centre (CA)
- Chinese PLA General Hospital (CN)
- University of Florida (US)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR)
- Circuit Therapeutics (United States) (US)
- Hôpital Saint-Antoine (FR)
- IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio (IT)
- Beijing Institute of Neurosurgery (CN)
- Hainan General Hospital (CN)
- Krembil Foundation (CA)
- Zuyderland Medisch Centrum (NL)
- LVR-Klinik Bonn (DE)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (GB)
- Institut du Cerveau (FR)
- University Hospital Cologne (DE)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen (FR)
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin (DE)
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta (IT)
- Krembil Research Institute
- University College London (GB)
- New York University (US)
- Université de Rouen Normandie (FR)
- Universidade Federal de Goiás (BR)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- medRxiv
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.21.26346772
- Primary Topic
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- University College London
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Universität zu Köln
- Thiemann Stiftung
- National Institutes of Health