OCD - Treatment - Deep brain stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been reported to help in the treatment of for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder

In a recent review by Mian et al. (2010) suggested that three main brain regions are targeted by DBS for OCD:


 * The anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC) and/or the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS)2, the most common sites
 * The subthalamic nucleus (STN) within the basal ganglia,
 * The inferior thalamic peduncle (ITP) linking orbitofrontal cortex and thalamus