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Ablative Procedures for Depression

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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Depression is the commonest psychiatric disorder in North America. Approximately 11 million patients were affected in the USA in 1990 [1]. Depression is eight times more frequent than schizophrenia and 16 times more frequent than Parkinson’s disease. Angst et al. estimated life time-prevalence in all age groups to be 9.5% [2]. The economical burden of depression on society is higher than that of other chronic diseases such as hypertension, asthma, osteoporosis or rheumatoid arthritis [3,4]. Greenberg estimated this cost in 1990 was as high as US$43.7 billion for the USA alone [1].

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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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Coenen, V.A., Honey, C.R. (2009). Ablative Procedures for Depression. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_175

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