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The Lancet

Volume 354, Issue 9189, 30 October 1999, Page 1526
The Lancet

Research Letters
Electrical stimulation in anterior limbs of internal capsules in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Summary

Chronic electrical stimulation instead of bilateral capsulotomy was done in four selected patients with long-standing treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. In three of them beneficial effects were observed.

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