Examples of use of STN
1. After the holes were drilled, it took a couple of hours to place the bundles of electrodes in an area of the brain called the subthalmic nucleus (STN), which is over stimulated in patients with Parkinson‘s disease.
2. The authors included the two leaders of the unit at the University of Grenoble, the surgeon Alim–Louis Benabid and the neurologist Pierre Pollack, who have become internationally renowned through their development of what I call my "pacemaker operation" – technically known as deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), which is fast becoming the standard treatment for advanced Parkinson‘s.