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J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · Jan 2009
Neuropsychological outcome of ventral capsular/ventral striatal gamma capsulotomy for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a pilot study.
- Anita Taub, Antonio Carlos Lopes, Daniel Fuentes, Carina Chaubet D'Alcante, Maria Eugenia de Mathis, Miguel Montes Canteras, Marilena Siviero, Benjamin D Greenberg, Georg Norén, Marcelo Batistuzzo, Marcelo Queiroz Hoexter, Soraya Cecílio, Cary Savage, Steven Rasmussen, and Euripedes Constantino Miguel.
- Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders Program (PROTOC), Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, R. Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 785, 3 degrees andar, sala 9, São Paulo, SP 01060-970, Brazil. anita_taub@uol.com.br
- J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2009 Jan 1;21(4):393-7.
AbstractFive refractory obsessive-compulsive patients were assessed using a neuropsychological battery after a modified gamma knife capsulotomy. The surgical technique was not associated with profound cognitive deficits. The authors found improvements in attention, vocabulary, learning, abstract reasoning, and memory.
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