Mayo Clinic Proceedings reviews deep brain stimulation to treat psychiatric diseases
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 07:35
in Health & Medicine
Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome are underway at multiple medical centres around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 'Deep brain stimulation has long been seen as valuable for controlling movement disorders,' according to the review, written by Susannah Tye, Ph.D., Mark Frye, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Kendall Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Department of Neurosurgery. 'It now is being investigated for hard-to-treat psychiatric disorders,' according to the authors...