Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of deep brain stimulation in young children excluded from the FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption: analysis of the CHILD-DBS registry

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics · Published 2026-08-05 · DOI 10.3171/2026.2.peds25517

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Suna Jung, Samuel Molot-Toker, Thiemo F. Dinger, Arjun Balachandar, Birra Taha, Karim Mithani, Sara Breitbart, MyLoi Huynh, Fay Kisteroff, Seetha Sriharan, Lindsey M. Vogt, Andrea LeBlanc-Millar, Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, Kathryn Yang, Marcella Ruppert-Gomez, Scellig S. Stone, Weston T. Northam, Nisha Gadgil, Jeffrey S. Raskin, Alexander G. Weil, Aristides Hadjinicolaou, Inge A. Meijer, Alfonso Fasano, Carolina Gorodetsky, George M. Ibrahim

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2026

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Jung, S., Molot-Toker, S., Dinger, T., et al. (2026). Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of deep brain stimulation in young children excluded from the FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption: analysis of the CHILD-DBS registry. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.3171/2026.2.peds25517

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