Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic will present results of a study today that shows deep brain stimulation (DBS) is associated with improvements on formal memory tests in patients with severe psychiatric illness. Since 2001, this team of investigators has been using DBS for treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Deep Brain Stimulation Shows Promise In Treatment Of Memory Problems Associated With Severe Psychiatric Disorders
Posted by Ruslan Abuzant at 2:02 PM
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comments:
The MANHATTAN
ADULT
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
SUPPORT GROUP
is pleased to announce
its next meeting:
Thursday
September 20, 2007
6:30pm to 9pm
DEEP-BRAIN STIMULATION:
A NEW PSYCHIATRIC TOOL?
Ron Alterman, MD,
neurosurgeon;
associate professor of
neurosurgery,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, NY;
director of Functional
and Restorative Neurosurgery,
Mount Sinai Hospital
In deep brain stimulation, or DBS, an implanted electrical device sends symptom-suppressing pulses to a selected brain target. DBS is approved for use in three neurological ailments -- essential tremor, Parkinson's Disease, and dystonia -- and is being tested in others. Among these are treatment-resistant forms of three psychiatric or psychiatric-like conditions: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette Syndrome.
Our speaker will be neurosurgeon Ron Alterman, who earned a medical degree at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After stints on the faculties of three medical schools, Dr. Alterman now teaches at Mount Sinai. There, he supervises the program which includes DBS.
Seafarers & Int'l House
123 East 15th Street
(northeast corner,
15th and Irving Place,
near Union Square)
845-278-3022
914-378-3295
MAADDSG@aol.com
Post a Comment