| ●Editorial | Kurihara M | 4-6 |
| ●Review | ||
| Deep Brain Stimulation: History, present status and future development | Fukaya C, Yamamoto T, Katayama Y | 7-16 |
| ●The symposium on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy for Psychiatric Disorders At the 47th meeting of the Japan Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Organized by: The Japan Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery | 17-76 | |
| Present status and future of DBS therapy for psychiatric disorders in Japan | Namba H | 18-9 |
| Development of the Manual on DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders | Minabe Y | 20-35 |
| Surgical treatments for OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) | Chang JW | 36-43 |
| Modulation for depression: Modulation of pathological brain circuits | Lozano AM | 44-54 |
| DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) for psychiatric disorders: Perspective of psychiatry | Mori N | 55-9 |
| DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) for mental disorders: Perspectives of neurological surgery | Katayama Y | 60-4 |
| General discussion | 65-76 | |
| ●Interview | ||
| Effectiveness of DBS for depression and future perspective -Interview with Prof. Andres Lozano- | Lozano AM | 77-83 |
| ●Articles and discussions (Study Group of Bioethics Policies) | ||
| Psychosurgery and brain research: Past and present | Nudeshima J | 85-114 |
| Summarizing the debate on the so-called brain-death in Japan | Mitsuishi T | 115-7 |
| Brain as a 'research subject': Considering neuroethics from clinical point of view | 119-28 | |
| Clinical Evaluation and psychopathology of Deep Brain Stimulation therapy
for major depressive disorder: reflection on the concept and recognition of sadness | Saio T, Kurihara C | 129-45 |
| ●Interview | ||
| The establishment of "Neurosurgery" as a discipline in Japan and its contacts with "psychosurgery"-Interview with Prof. Keiji Sano- | Sano K | 147-52 |
| Practice of "daily life therapy" and historical memoir -Interview with Prof. Hiroshi Utena- | Utena H | 153-72 |
| ●Article | ||
| Drug Disaster Prevention Act: A proposal | Saio T, Kurihara C | 173-200 |
| ●Manual for diagnosis of Adverse Drug Event | Shimizu N | 201-78 |
| ●Forum | ||
| Liberation from bondage with guidance on microdose study | Itoh K | 279-82 |
| ●Instructions for authors [Japanese] & [English] | 283-8 | |
| ●Editor's note | Sugiyama Y | 289 |