{"id":183005,"date":"2024-02-18T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/us-patient-happy-again-after-brain-implant-treats-epilepsy-and-ocd"},"modified":"2024-02-18T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:24:58","slug":"us-patient-happy-again-after-brain-implant-treats-epilepsy-and-ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/us-patient-happy-again-after-brain-implant-treats-epilepsy-and-ocd","title":{"rendered":"US Patient \u2018Happy Again\u2019 after Brain Implant Treats Epilepsy and OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-patient-happy-again-after-brain-implant-treats-epilepsy-and-ocd2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American Amber Pearson used to wash her hands until they bled, terrified by the idea of contamination from everyday items, a debilitating result of her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).<\/p>\n<p>But the repetitive rituals of her condition are largely consigned to memory, thanks to a revolutionary brain implant that is being used to treat both her epilepsy and her OCD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m actually present in my daily life and that\u2019s incredible,\u201d the 34-year-old told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Amber Pearson used to wash her hands until they bled, terrified by the idea of contamination from everyday items, a debilitating result of her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). But the repetitive rituals of her condition are largely consigned to memory, thanks to a revolutionary brain implant that is being used to treat both her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183005","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\/183005","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}