World Neurosurgery
Volume 76, Issue 6 , Pages 537-547, December 2011

Deep Brain Stimulation and Ethics: Perspectives from a Multisite Qualitative Study of Canadian Neurosurgical Centers

  • Emily Bell

      Affiliations

    • Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Bruce Maxwell

      Affiliations

    • Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Mary Pat McAndrews

      Affiliations

    • Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems–Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Abbas Sadikot

      Affiliations

    • Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Eric Racine

      Affiliations

    • Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Department of Medicine and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medicine, and Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationTo whom correspondence should be addressed: Eric Racine, Ph.D.

Received 13 October 2010; accepted 13 May 2011.

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 Conflict of interest: This study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NNF 80045; States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics (ER); New Investigator Award (ER); and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (EB).

PII: S1878-8750(11)00617-6

doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.05.033

World Neurosurgery
Volume 76, Issue 6 , Pages 537-547, December 2011

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