Prioritizing Patients' Voices in the Assessment of Risk and Benefit
This event is In Person.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Cynthia S. Kubu, PhD, ABPP-CN
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an elective neurosurgical procedure with the goal of improving quality of life in patients who suffer from severe neurological or neuropsychiatric symptoms. Concerns have arisen in the literature that patients who undergo DBS are not as happy with the outcome as their treating physicians highlighting a satisfaction gap. Similarly, some conceptual neuroethics scholarship and the popular media have asserted that DBS can result in unwanted changes to personality. This seminar will present empirical data that challenges some of these claims and illustrates how patients’ assessment of benefit and understandings of personality do not conform to existing, commonly used outcome or personality measures. These findings have implications for the informed consent process, research design, and trust in medicine.
Speaker will present in person in Rammelkamp R219.