The impact of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on belief revision and social validation

Hannah Jergas; Linnéa Grindegård; Thomas Schultze; Sharmili Edwin Thanarajah; Elke Kalbe; Thilo van Eimeren; Haidar S Dafsari; Till A Dembek; Veerle Visser-Vandewalle; Gereon R Fink; Lars Timmermann; Leonhard Schilbach; Michael T Barbe

doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.06.020

The impact of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on belief revision and social validation

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2021 Aug:89:84-86. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.06.020. Epub 2021 Jun 30.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: hannah.jergas@uk-koeln.de.
² Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
³ Institute of Psychology, Georg-August University, Gosslerstraße 14, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Faculaty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
⁵ Department of Medical Psychology, Neuropsychology and Gender Studies & Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention (CeNDI), University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
⁶ Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg, Marburg Campus, Baldingerstraße, 35033, Marburg, Germany.
⁸ Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Kraepelin str. 2-10, 80804, Munich, Germany.

PMID: 34256332
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.06.020

Abstract

We investigated whether Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) influences social validation as measured by a Judge-Advisor task. In contrast to healthy controls and patients with their DBS OFF, patients with their stimulation switched on do not experience a gain of confidence after receiving competent advice.

Keywords: Advice taking; Belief revision; Parkinson's disease; Social validation; Subthalamic deep brain stimulation.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Deep Brain Stimulation*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Parkinson Disease / therapy*
Self Concept*
Social Behavior*
Social Interaction*
Subthalamic Nucleus*