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Citations are needed for the two following factual references:

- "may benefit between 4.5% and 20% of patients at some stage of their disease course."

- "although not in the United States due to its severe side effects"

In any case, the deep brain stimulation discussion might better be condensed in this article since there is an in-depth article about that procedure. The level of detail in this article seems beyond what is needed to put ablation in context. Negarc (talk) 04:32, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Section on Parkinson's disease should be merged into main articles, especially deep brain stimulation. Aeth909 (talk) 2015.Aug.25 —Preceding undated comment added 23:27, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]