The Impact of Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation on Belief Revision and Social Validation

We investigated whether Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) influences social validation as measured by a Judge-Advisor task. In contrast to healthy controls and patients with their DBS OFF, patients with their stimulation switched on do not experience a gain of confidence after receiving competent advice.

Source: Parkinsonism and Related Disorders - June 29, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Hannah Jergas, Linn éa Grindegård, Thomas Schultze, Sharmili Edwin Thanarajah, Elke Kalbe, Thilo van Eimeren, Haidar S. Dafsari, Till A. Dembek, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Gereon R. Fink, Lars Timmermann, Leonhard Schilbach Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research