Preoperative Attention/Memory Problem Affects the Quality of Life of Parkinson's Disease Patients after Deep Brain Stimulation: A Cohort Study

CONCLUSION: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) led to an improvement in the patients' nonmotor symptoms (NMS) at the 1-year follow-up, along with a correlation observed between NMS and the patients' quality of life (QoL). Notably, the severity of preoperative attention/memory problems emerged as the most significant predictor of NMS influencing the QoL outcome after STN-DBS at the 1-year follow-up.PMID:38356939 | PMC:PMC10866634 | DOI:10.1155/2024/3651705
Source: Parkinsons Disease - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research