#35: Mark Richardson – Surfing the Frontiers of Functional Neurosurgery: From Brain Modulation to Patient Engagement
Stimulating Brains
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DBS OCD: A Clinical Trial?
In each patient where we've moved the simulation context towards this positive track it's worked. And my mind there is no question about this because these patients are so refractory here that I don't think that you can placebo the type of responses and they don't remember we're not doing this in clinical trial. So they get a little more attention with their DBS. We have had patients who have been liberated enough from some of their compulsive behavior that they can function for instance go back to holding a job. Some of their, some of their compulsions or their obsessions manifest in unhealthy ways like being on dating apps too much.
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