Electrical stimulation in anterior limbs of internal capsules in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Nuttin, B; Cosyns, P; Demeulemeester, H; Gybels, J; Meyerson, B · Lancet · 1999

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Abstract

Chronic electrical stimulation instead of bilateral capsulotomy was done in four selected patients with long-standing treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. In three of them beneficial effects were observed.

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