Surgical decision making for deep brain stimulation should not be based on aggregated normative data mining

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Freiburg University Medical Center, Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Germany; Center for Basics in Neuromodulation, Freiburg University, Germany. Electronic address: volker.coenen@uniklinik-freiburg.de.
• ² Department of Interventional Biological Psychiatry, Freiburg University Medical Center, Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Germany.
• ³ Cortics, Munich, Germany.
• ⁴ Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁵ Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Freiburg University Medical Center, Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Functional Neurosurgery Unit, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University Hospital, 90185, Umeå, Sweden.
• ⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Houston, USA.