Brain Stimulation Device For Ocd

Healthday a brain stimulation device to treat obsessive compulsive disorder ocd has received approval for marketing friday by the u s.

Brain stimulation device for ocd.

In 2009 the fda approved deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder ocd that s severe to extreme which isn t a movement disorder. The placement of the electrodes and the decision about how much stimulation is given is crucial. The approval hinged on an fda humanitarian device exemption which applies to treatments for diseases rare enough that it s difficult to impossible to enroll enough patients to run effective. Read on to know all about this surgical procedure and much more.

Deep brain stimulation for highly treatment resistant ocdby darin dougherty md and benjamin greenberg md ph d. The hde approval assumes a relatively small number of patients will receive the treatment. While most patients with obsessive compulsive disorder ocd eventually respond to treatment with medication and or behavioral therapy a small minority. Deep brain stimulation is an established treatment for people with movement disorders such as essential tremor parkinson s disease and dystonia and psychiatric conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder.

Deep brain stimulation dbs is a neurosurgical procedure involving the placement of a medical device called a neurostimulator sometimes referred to as a brain pacemaker which sends electrical impulses through implanted electrodes to specific targets in the brain brain nuclei for the treatment of movement disorders including parkinson s disease essential tremor and dystonia. The fda recently approved dbs for treatment resistant ocd under a humanitarian device exemption hde. It s also approved for use by the food and drug administration to reduce seizures in difficult to treat epilepsy. It will be used as a last ditch therapy to treat patients who have failed multiple different therapies for ocd.

In february 2009 the fda granted medtronic corporation a humanitarian device exemption for the use of one of its deep brain stimulation devices for refractory obsessive compulsive disorder which.