Is your patient with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) not responding well to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs)? You may possibly treat these patients with deep brain stimulation technique. This article will provide a brief introduction of deep brain stimulation for treatment of OCD. Obsessions or compulsions generally are manifestations of ritualized behaviors to relieve stress and anxiety.
Currently, treatment by CBT and SRIs is the most prevalent modality to treat the patients with clinical presentation of OCD. These two modalities address the underlying causes such as anxiety and depression and hence reduce OCD presentation. However, it is found that about 10%of the OCD patients remain severely affected with treatment-refractory OCD. The widely used treatment method ‘deep brain stimulation’ for movement disorders is found useful for OCD…
