Will Deep Brain Stimulation Help Move Precision Medicine to the Clinic in Psychiatry?

In this issue of Biological Psychiatry, Tyagi et  al. (1) present the results of a small study (n = 6) in which two deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgical targets for the treatment of intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are compared in an intraindividual trial design. Specifically, patients had DBS electrodes implanted bilaterally in the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) and anteromedial subthalamic nucleus (amSTN). They then entered a 12-week double-blind counterbalanced phase of either VC/VS or amSTN stimulation.
Source: Biological Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research