| | Indication | Target region | References |
| | Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy | Pedunculopontine (PPN) nucleus | [144–146, 148, 149] |
| | Tremor types other than essential and Parkinsonian tremor (Holmes tremor, dystonic tremor, thalamic tremor, essential writer’s tremor, and neuropathic tremor) | Ventrointermediate (VIM), ventral oralis (Vo) and anterior and posterior nucleus thalami, and subthalamic nucleus (STN) | [156–159] |
| | Huntington’s disease | Globus pallidusinternus and externus (Gpi and Gpe) | [160, 161] |
| | Alzheimer’s disease | Fornix/hypothalamus | [162] |
| | Thalamic pain and poststroke fixed dystonia | Posterior limb of internal capsule | [163, 164] |
| | Central nociceptive pain syndromes (ischemia, hemorrhage, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord, and injury) | Periaqueductal/periventricular gray matter (PAG/PVG) | [165] |
| | Peripheral neuropathic pain (postzoster neuralgia, radiogenic plexus lesion, phantom pain, postdissectomy syndrome, chronic radiculopathy, and carcinoma pain) | Ventroposterolateral/ventroposteromedial (VPL/VPM) nucleus thalami, ventrocaudal (Vc) nucleus thalami, medial lemniscus, and PAG/PVG | [165, 166] |
| | Epilepsy | Anterior and centromedian nucleus (AN and CMN) thalami, mammillary body (MB) hypothalamic and mamillothalamic tract, STN, hippocampus, caudate nucleus (CN), and cerebellum | [167, 168] |
| | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Anterior limb of internal capsule (ALIC), STN, ventral caudate, inferior thalamic peduncle, nucleus accumbens (NAc), and ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) | [25–29, 169–171] |
| | Depression | Subcallosal cingulated gyrus, inferior thalamic peduncle, NAc, VC/VS | [29, 172–174] |
| | Gilles de la Tourette syndrome | Centromedian-parafascicular (Cm-Pf) and Vo complex thalami, Gpi, and NAc | [17, 29] |
| | Minimally conscious state | Central thalamus | [175] |
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