What are the impacts of undergoing deep brain stimulation?

There are some people who have autistic traits or have autism. They can look normal, attend school normally and go to work as per normal. However, they might be more sensitive to changes in colour, texture and sounds. These people might also experience meltdowns more frequently. Sometimes, they are just "not happy" and are unable to express their feelings, or even realise that they are not happy until the meltdown. These conditions can be diagnosed by a psychologist or psychiatrist trained in autism.

Essentially the criteria we look out for are Parkinson's patients we feel will greatly benefit from this. We are looking for patients who maybe have mobile fluctuations, meaning they have this “on-off” phenomenon. We want to make sure we do not treat patients with dementia because they do not respond as well to DBS and we want to exclude patients who have severe depression. Again, patients with depression should not have surgery until their depression is stable. So we eliminate those patients who aren't suitable.