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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 29, 2020 0:02:18 GMT -5
Pioneering patient with extreme OCD sees success with new psychosurgery TORONTO -- A pioneering patient with extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is championing a new treatment which uses targeted ultrasound on the brain to treat the condition. “It saved my life,” Jeffrey Kotas said in an exclusive TV interview with CTV National News. The 32 year old from Toronto had over time become imprisoned by anxious and repetitive thoughts about perfection and cleanliness. <snip> Doctors at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre targeted a small part of the brain thought to trigger the unrelenting worry at the root of many cases of OCD, using ultrasound energy to kill the tissue. The treatment is not invasive and it’s done while the patient is laying down in an MRI unit, allowing doctors to see images of the brain and provide precise delivery of the ultrasound. www.ctvnews.ca/health/pioneering-patient-with-extreme-ocd-sees-success-with-new-psychosurgery-1.4787841 |
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Post by mmhmm on Jan 29, 2020 14:50:58 GMT -5
This sounds great. I do hope further testing proves it to be efficacious as OCD can be a crippling condition with which to deal. Sounds like it could also be effective against the rumination that so often leads to deep, life-threatening depressive dives. I'm really interested in following this one.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 29, 2020 15:11:35 GMT -5
It looks promising so far.
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