{"id":152238,"date":"2022-12-08T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-study-finds-that-deep-brain-stimulation-is-highly-effective-in-treating-severe-ocd"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:45:51","slug":"new-study-finds-that-deep-brain-stimulation-is-highly-effective-in-treating-severe-ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-study-finds-that-deep-brain-stimulation-is-highly-effective-in-treating-severe-ocd","title":{"rendered":"New Study Finds That Deep Brain Stimulation Is Highly Effective in Treating Severe OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-finds-that-deep-brain-stimulation-is-highly-effective-in-treating-severe-ocd.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The symptoms of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD as it is more popularly known, may be reduced by half with deep brain stimulation, according to a pooled data analysis of the available data, which was recently published in the <em>Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, &amp; Psychiatry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research, two-thirds of individuals who were affected saw a significant improvement after two years.<\/p>\n<p>OCD is characterized by intrusive and persistent obsessive thoughts, as well as dysfunctional and ritualized behaviors. It is estimated that up to 3% of the population is affected by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The symptoms of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD as it is more popularly known, may be reduced by half with deep brain stimulation, according to a pooled data analysis of the available data, which was recently published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, &amp; Psychiatry. According to the research, two-thirds of individuals who were affected [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152238","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\/152238","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}