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Surgeries for OCD risky, but
offer hope

Nicole McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Nicole McLaughlin, Ph.D., Butler Hospital in Rhode Island (photo by Tom Croke)

By Ami Albernaz

For Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients who have exhausted all other treatment options, surgery offers great potential and poses great risk. For doctors shepherding along the precarious surgical procedures, successfully balancing the possible risks and rewards for patients will likely determine the future course of the work.

Surgery has allowed some OCD sufferers to live a more normal life - to attend college, to travel, to rebuild relationships with family and friends. Yet for others, the side effects can be severe: memory deficits, edema, even seizure disorder. (In many cases, the side effects disappear in time). [More]

 

 

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