Hi, In response to a query re: Where would one find info re: DBS and is it backed by peer reviewed papers, I offer ..... Entrez-PubMed PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?SUBMIT=y To see how this works, please follow along... Search PubMed for parkinson Items 1-20 of 31899 Now, narrow the search..... Search PubMed for parkinson AND implant Items 1-20 of 63 Sixty - three is a good number to scroll through.... (31,899 is obviously too broad) Scroll down to... Tasker RR. Related Articles Deep brain stimulation is preferable to thalamotomy for tremor suppression. Surg Neurol. 1998 Feb;49(2):145-53; discussion 153-4. PMID: 9457264 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] This may not be what you're looking for, but I will use it as an example... "Click" on "Tasker RR." to read the abstract... Now if this interests you, you might wish to click on "Related Articles". Ah!! Items 1-20 of 175 One hundred and seventy-five! All related! The next thing to do is try other "key" words in the search box... Try parkinson AND stimulation 1-20 of 2079 Try parkinson AND stereotactic Items 1-20 of 379 Try parkinson AND thalamic 1-20 of 672 Try parkinson AND olanow Items 1-20 of 110 Try Search PubMed for deep brain stimulation Items 1-20 of 1461 Try Search PubMed for parkinson AND deep brain stimulation 1-20 of 198 PubMed is a great tool for searching Medical abstracts.... Free Full-text Articles? Try the new PubMed Central, NLM's free and unrestricted online archive of journal articles. Links to full-text in PubMed Central are available from PubMed citations. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Search all PMC journals for: parkinson Results 1 - 20 of 55 Search all PMC journals for: parkinson AND stimulation Results 1 - 2 of 2 Newer service.... not as many "hits"... There is a PubMed tutorial... PubMed Tutorial - Overview http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html And a Step-by-step guide to searching PubMed http://www.glenlib.demon.co.uk/pubmed/ (janet paterson taught me how to Search PubMed) I hope this helps... Best regards ..... murray [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn