Effects of GPi-DBS on Speech and Swallowing in Pediatric Patients with Dystonia

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³ Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

³ Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁴ Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disorders, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

⁴ Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscle Disorders, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Wuerzburg, Germany

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Wuerzburg, Germany

⁷ Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

⁹ Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, University Children’s Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

¹⁰ Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹¹ Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

¹² Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany