Neuromodulation Surgery For Psychiatric Disorders (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

Despite the advances in pharmacotherapy in the treatment of some psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression, a significant number of patients become refractory and will not respond to pharmacologic treatments[1]. Clinicians are beginning to reconsider neuromodulation surgery as a last resort for the treatment of these patients. Neurosurgical interventions aimed at treating psychiatric disorders are grouped into two categories: destructive (ablative psychosurgery) or selective stimulation (neuromodulation psychosurgery)[1]. Neuromodulation surgery involves implanting a device in the brain that modulates the neural networks within the brain. The use of surgery for the treating of psychiatric diseases is not a new concept. Historically, the concept of psychosurgery always raised general skepticism and stigma because of the way that it was erroneously used in the past despite the high rate of complications and mortalities w...

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