Double-target DBS for essential tremor: 8-contact lead for cZI and Vim aligned in the same trajectory
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- Received September 19, 2017
- Accepted in final form December 18, 2017
- First Published February 7, 2018.
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Author Disclosures
- Maria Gabriela Dos Santos Ghilardi, MD,
- Melisa Ibarra, MD,
- Eduardo J.L. Alho, MD, PhD,
- Paul Rodrigo Reis,
- William Omar Lopez Contreras, MD, PhD,
- Clement Hamani, MD, PhD and
- Erich Talamoni Fonoff, MD, PhD
- Maria Gabriela Dos Santos Ghilardi, MD,
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1) Commercial funding for travel from Medtronic to International Movement Disorders Congress Berlin 2016, payment of airplane tickets and accommodations.
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- Melisa Ibarra, MD,
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- Eduardo J.L. Alho, MD, PhD,
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- Paul Rodrigo Reis,
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- William Omar Lopez Contreras, MD, PhD,
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- Clement Hamani, MD, PhD and
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Travel and speaking honoraria from Medtronic
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Research grants from OBI, CQDM, Brain Canada and NIH unrelated to the study.
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- Erich Talamoni Fonoff, MD, PhD
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ETF has received travel funding and honoraria as a speaker for Boston Scientific
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ETF has acted as a technical consultant for Boston Scientific
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- From Instituto Sírio-Libanes de Ensino e Pesquisa (M.G.D.S.G., M.I., E.J.L.A., P.R.R., W.O.L.C., E.T.F.), São Paulo, Brazil; and Sunnybrook Research Institute (C.H.), University of Toronto, Canada.
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Dr. Fonoff fonoffet{at}usp.br
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