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

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 354; no. 9189; p. 1526
• Main Authors: Nuttin, Bart, Cosyns, Paul, Demeulemeester, Hilde, Gybels, Jan, Meyerson, Björn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier Ltd 30.10.1999; Lancet; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Diseases of the nervous system; Double-Blind Method; Electric Stimulation Therapy; Electricity; Female; Humans; Medical sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Neuroses; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - therapy; Psychiatry; Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects); Statistics, Nonparametric; Human; Evaluation; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Nervous system diseases; Electrical treatment; Treatment efficiency; Instrumentation therapy; Anterior; Instrumental stimulation; Striated muscle disease; Internal capsule; Limb; Central nervous system disease; Psychiatry

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.