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SUBMITTER: Garnaat SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4093791 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Garnaat Sarah L SL Greenberg Benjamin D BD Sibrava Nicholas J NJ Goodman Wayne K WK Mancebo Maria C MC Eisen Jane L JL Rasmussen Steven A SA
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 20140101 1
A few patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remain severely impaired despite exhausting best-practice treatments. For them, neurosurgery (stereotactic ablation or deep brain stimulation) might be considered. The authors investigated the proportion of treatment-seeking OCD patients, in a naturalistic clinical sample, who met contemporary neurosurgery selection criteria. Using comprehensive baseline data on diagnosis, severity, and treatment history for adult patients from the NIMH-sup ...[more]