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JOURNAL REFERENCE: YORK MK, DULAY M, MACIAS A, ET AL. COGNITIVE DECLINES FOLLOWING BILATERAL SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE. J NEUROL NEUROSURG PSYCHIATRY. 2008; 79(7): 789-795. WE INVESTIGATED THE COGNITIVE AND PSYCHIATRIC OUTCOME 6 MOS AFTER BILATERAL SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS) FOR THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PD) USING A DISEASE CONTROL GROUP. TWENTY THREE PTS WHO UNDERWENT DBS WERE COMPARED WITH 28 MEDICALLY TREATED PTS WITH PD AT BASELINE AND AT 6 MOS FOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES. REPORTABLE EVENT: TRENDS WERE REVEALED FOR PTS WHO UNDERWENT DBS TO DECLINE ON THE STROOP WORD SCORE (P, 0.05) AND SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST ORAL SCORE (P, 0.04) OVER 6 MOS COMPARED WITH THE PD CONTROLS, SUGGESTING THAT FOR PTS WHO UNDERWENT DBS, ORAL INFO PROCESSING PERFORMANCE WAS AFFECTED FOLLOWING SURGERY.