Nature Communications (May 2020)

Deep brain stimulation-guided optogenetic rescue of parkinsonian symptoms

  • Sébastien Valverde,
  • Marie Vandecasteele,
  • Charlotte Piette,
  • Willy Derousseaux,
  • Giuseppe Gangarossa,
  • Asier Aristieta Arbelaiz,
  • Jonathan Touboul,
  • Bertrand Degos,
  • Laurent Venance

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16046-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a symptomatic treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) that benefits only a minority of patients. Here, the authors show that activation of cortical somatostatin interneurons alleviates motor symptoms in a mouse model of PD and may constitute a less invasive alternative than DBS.