DBS for Tourette Registry shows benefit for select patients

University of Florida researchers are leading a multinational registry that tracks the progress of patients who have received deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome. In a report published in JAMA Neurology, the team reports after 1 year of stimulation a mean 45% decrease in Yale Global Tic Severity Scale score across 185 patients from 10 countries. As said in the paper this strengthens “the notion that DBS could be a potential surgical treatment for select patients with Tourette syndrome.”

Dr. Michael Okun, our co-director and the chair of neurology, explains in this video:

• For more details please check out the full UF Health press release.
• Read the paper in JAMA Neurology.
• View the International Tourette Deep Brain Stimulation Database and Registry.
• Watch CNN Vital Signs’ Dr. Sanjay Gupta visit our DBS operating room and see a Tourette DBS case.