Deep brain stimulation (DBS) that targets the ventral striatum (VS) and the anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC) for post-stroke pain syndrome was found to be comparatively safe, and effectively modulated the affective sphere of chronic pain, according to a 10-patient prospective study presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (seminar 120).
The investigators were motivated by the lack of existing randomized controlled data to inform how