Nir Lipsman, MD

Who would be the optimal candidate to receive focused ultrasound to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Patients with treatment resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression may now experience some relief using focused ultrasound.

Deep Brain Stimulation is a neurosurgical procedure initially developed for the management of treatment-refractory movement disorders. More recently, the rationale for the use of DBS in anorexia nervosa derives from several sources.

Demographic shifts and rising life expectancies will lead to an epidemic of chronic neuropsychiatric disease, and societal and public health costs will be enormous. Deep brain stimulation--a procedure that interfaces directly with the neural elements that drive pathological behavior--could be useful.