Do Relational and Self-Definitional Traits Influence Deep Brain Stimulation Device Preference?

ABSTRACT: Personality psychodynamics have been shown to influence individual responses to psychiatric treatments, including medication. Increasingly, neuromodulation therapies have become available for severe and treatment-resistant depression. This study aims to evaluate patient response to an implanted neurostimulator battery within the framework of relational versus self-definitional personality traits. Relational development is interpersonally oriented and disruptions along this pathway lead to dependency on others for a sense of security and self-worth. Self-definitional development is characterized by autonomy strivings and disruptions lead to self-critical feelings of failing to meet expectations. Patients drawn from a larger study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depre

SUBMITTER: Crowell AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7989068 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature