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Unit recordings during 77 stereotaxic thalamotomies were performed to determine the optimum site for the lesion. The procedure also provided the opportunity to correlate physiological localisation with the average position of nuclear boundaries and their variabilities.
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Andrew, J., de Rudolf, N.M. (1972). Micro-Electrode Recordings in the Human Thalamus during Stereotaxic Surgery. In: Nicholson, J.P. (eds) Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Brain. Advances in Behavioral Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3539-7_6
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