{"id":109618,"date":"2020-07-07T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-electrified-brain"},"modified":"2020-07-07T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:05:03","slug":"the-electrified-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-electrified-brain","title":{"rendered":"The Electrified Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-electrified-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Targeted deep brain stimulation may help treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Charite<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers from Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin have further refined the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. By accurately localizing electrode placement in the brains of patients, the researchers were able to identify a fiber tract which is associated with the best clinical outcomes following deep brain stimulation. The researchers\u2019 findings, which have been published in Nature Communications, may be used to improve the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Targeted deep brain stimulation may help treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. Source: Charite A group of researchers from Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin have further refined the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. By accurately localizing electrode placement in the brains of patients, the researchers were able to identify a fiber tract [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}