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NeurologyLive® Brain Games: October 19, 2025

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NeurologyLive Brain Games offers weekly quizzes on diverse neurology topics, crafted by field experts.
Each quiz features three questions, focusing on areas like dementia, epilepsy, migraines, and movement disorders.
This week's theme centers on Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
Participants can contribute questions and share their quiz results with peers.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease.

Welcome to NeurologyLive^® Brain Games! This weekly quiz series, which goes live every Sunday morning, will feature questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics, written by physicians, clinicians, and experts in the fields of neurological care and advocacy.

Test your mettle each week with 3 questions that cover a variety of aspects in the field of neurology, with a focus on dementia and Alzheimer disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, headache and migraine, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders, and stroke and cerebrovascular disease.

This week's questions includes the theme of Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease.

Click here to check out the prior iterations of Brain Games.

Interested in submitting quiz questions? Contact our editor, Marco Meglio, via email: [email protected].

Which preoperative factor best predicts the magnitude of motor improvement after STN DBS in PD

Which scenario represents a generally accepted contraindication/exclusion for DBS referral in PD?

A 61-year-old with idiopathic PD, severe levodopa-responsive OFF time, and troublesome dyskinesias is an appropriate surgical candidate for DBS. Which statement best reflects comparative target effects you should discuss during shared decision-making?

How did you do on this week's quiz? Let us know with a response to the poll below. Don't forget to share and compare your results with your friends!

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