JAPAN 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Impulsivity, Essential Tremor, Dystonia
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Deep brain stimulation (dbs): widely used as treatment for movement disorders (including. Because it reduces the need for medical treatment and is in some cases more effective, dbs will be expanded to other psychiatric disorders or even to decrease criminal behavior in former offenders. Side effects of dbs: cognitive and psychiatric problems including decline in word fluency, verbal memory, depression, increased suicide tendency, anxiety, emotional hyperreactivity and hypomania. Research on the impact of dbs on patient"s personality is controversial with some studies saying there is a change and some there isn"t. However: the probability of side effects depends on the site of stimulation, there is a difference between experimental and therapeutic use of dbs. In experimental settings, the probability of side effects may be high. Personal identity, responsibility for action and mental competence. Psychological criteria of personal identity (pcpi) by john locke: a person x at t1 is the same person as person y at t2 .
