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Gilbert et al. argue that discussions of self-related changes in patients undergoing DBS are overblown. They show that there is little evidence that these changes occur frequently and make recommendations for further research. We point out that their framing of the issue, their methodology, and their recommendations do not attend to other important questions about these changes.
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All page numbers refer to the version of the Gilbert et al. paper published online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-018-9373-8
One of these papers [7] may have been missed because, while it was published online in April 2017, it may not have been added to the databases the authors searched until later.
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Bluhm, R., Cabrera, L.Y. It’s Not Just Counting that Counts: a Reply to Gilbert, Viaña, and Ineichen. Neuroethics 14 (Suppl 1), 23–26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-018-9391-6
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