Pilot trial of DBS for "severe and refractory" self-injury, in N=6 autistic children who were "ineligible for or previously failed medical therapy" & "ineligible for or did not realize a benefit from behavioral therapy"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... DBS "was feasible and well-tolerated"?
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Carolina Gorodetsky, Karim Mithani, Sara Breitbart, Han Yan, Kristina Zhang, Flavia Venetucci Gouveia, Nebras Warsi, Hrishikesh Suresh, et al. (2025). Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens for Severe Self-Injurious Behavior in Children: A Phase I Pilot Trial. Biological Psychiatry, 97(12), 1116-1126. Elsevier BV.
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