TABLE 1.

Chronic diseases and corresponding DBS target sites.

disease	Target	References
Parkinson’s disease	GPi, STN, (PPN)	Deuschl et al., 2013; Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease Study Group, 2001
Chronic Epilepsy	Cerebellum, CN, STN, hippocampus, CM, CC, LoC, MB)	Bergey et al., 2015; Fisher et al., 2010
Primary Dystonia	GPi, (STN)	Ostrem et al., 2011; Vidailhet et al., 2007
Essential Tremor	Vim, (STN)	Zhang et al., 2010; Blomstedt et al., 2010
Alzheimer’s disease	NBM, fornix	Laxton et al. (2010)

Abbreviations: GPi, globus pallidus internus; STN, subthalamic nucleus; PPN, pedunculopontine nucleus; CN, caudate nucleus; CM, centromedian nucleus of the thalamus; CC, corpus callosum; LoC, locus coeruleus; MB, mammillary bodies; Vim, ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus; NBM, nucleus basalis of Meynert.