Efficacy and Safety of Pedunculopontine Nuclei (PPN) Deep Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Gait Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Clinical Studies

Effects of Pedunculopontine Area and Pallidal DBS on Gait Ignition in Parkinson's Disease

(2013) Christoph Schrader et al.   Brain Stimulation

Pedunculopontine nucleus evoked potentials from subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's disease

(2013) Bogdan Neagu et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Improvement of pisa syndrome with contralateral pedunculopontine stimulation

(2013) Ludy C. Shih et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

The Clinical Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus in Movement Disorders May Not Be Related to the Anatomical Target, Leads Location, and Setup of Electrical Stimulation

(2013) Paolo Mazzone et al.   NEUROSURGERY

Alpha oscillations in the pedunculopontine nucleus correlate with gait performance in parkinsonism

(2012) Wesley Thevathasan et al.   BRAIN

A spatiotemporal analysis of gait freezing and the impact of pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation

(2012) Wesley Thevathasan et al.   BRAIN

Clinical outcomes from bilateral versus unilateral stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus with and without concomitant caudal zona incerta region stimulation in Parkinson's disease

(2012) Sadaquate Khan et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

Deep Brain Stimulation of Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus (PPTg) Promotes Cognitive and Metabolic Changes: A Target-Specific Effect or Response to a Low-Frequency Pattern of Stimulation?

(2012) A. Stefani et al.   CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE

Combined pedunculopontine-subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease

(2012) S. Khan et al.   NEUROLOGY

Deep Brain Stimulation of Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus: Role in Sleep Modulation in Advanced Parkinson Disease Patients—One-Year Follow-Up

(2012) Antonella Peppe et al.   SLEEP

Improvement of hand dexterity induced by stimulation of the peduncolopontine nucleus in a patient with advanced Parkinson’s disease and previous long-lasting bilateral subthalamic DBS

(2011) Angelo Franzini et al.   ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA

Outcomes from stimulation of the caudal zona incerta and pedunculopontine nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease

(2011) Sadaquate Khan et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

Effects of unilateral pedunculopontine stimulation on electromyographic activation patterns during gait in individual patients with Parkinson’s disease

(2011) Pietro Caliandro et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

The deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus: towards a new stereotactic neurosurgery

(2011) Paolo Mazzone et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

The pedunculopontine nucleus as an additional target for deep brain stimulation

(2011) M.A.J. Lourens et al.   NEURAL NETWORKS

Pedunculopontine Nucleus Stimulation Improves Gait Freezing in Parkinson Disease

(2011) Wesley Thevathasan et al.   NEUROSURGERY

Low frequency stimulation of the nucleus tegmenti pedunculopontini increases cortical metabolism in Parkinsonian patients

(2010) R. Ceravolo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine tegmentum and subthalamic nucleus: Effects on gait in Parkinson's disease

(2010) A. Peppe et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

Cholinergic mesencephalic neurons are involved in gait and postural disorders in Parkinson disease

(2010) Carine Karachi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

The impact of low-frequency stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus region on reaction time in parkinsonism

(2010) W. Thevathasan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Pedunculopontine nucleus deep brain stimulation produces sustained improvement in primary progressive freezing of gait

(2010) R. A. Wilcox et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Selective enhancement of rapid eye movement sleep by deep brain stimulation of the human pons

(2009) Andrew S. Lim et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Unilateral pedunculopontine stimulation improves falls in Parkinson's disease

(2009) E. Moro et al.   BRAIN

Effects of pedunculopontine nucleus area stimulation on gait disorders in Parkinson's disease

(2009) M. U. Ferraye et al.   BRAIN

Non-motor functions in parkinsonian patients implanted in the pedunculopontine nucleus: Focus on sleep and cognitive domains

(2009) Stefani Alessandro et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Implantation of the nucleus tegmenti pedunculopontini in a PSP-P patient: Safe procedure, modest benefits

(2009) Livia Brusa et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

The Deep Brain Stimulation of the Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus

(2009) Paolo Mazzone et al.   NEUROMODULATION

Effects of deep brain stimulation of the peduncolopontine area on working memory tasks in patients with Parkinson's disease

(2009) Alberto Costa et al.   PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS

Pedunculopontine Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in a Patient with Primary Progressive Freezing Gait Disorder

(2009) Jill L. Ostrem et al.   STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

Akinesia, motor oscillations and the pedunculopontine nucleus in rats and men

(2008) John F. Stein   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Pedunculopontine nucleus deep brain stimulation changes spinal cord excitability in Parkinson’s disease patients

(2008) Mariangela Pierantozzi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Low frequency stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus modulates electrical activity of subthalamic neurons in the rat

(2008) Annamaria Capozzo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Predictors and course of health-related quality of life in Parkinson's disease

(2008) Elin Bjelland Forsaa et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Invited Article: Nervous system pathology in sporadic Parkinson disease

(2008) H. Braak et al.   NEUROLOGY