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Neuropsychological Outcome of Ventral Capsular/Ventral Striatal Gamma Capsulotomy for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Pilot Study
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NeuropsychologyProfound Cognitive DeficitsNeuropsychiatryCognitionAttentionCognitive RehabilitationPsychologySocial SciencesPilot StudyRefractory Obsessive-compulsive PatientsMemoryCognitive TherapyExperimental PsychopathologyNeuropsychological FunctioningCognitive SciencePsychiatryRefractory Obsessive-compulsive DisorderSurgical TechniqueObsessive-compulsive DisorderProcedural MemoryNeuroscienceBiological PsychiatryNeuropsychological OutcomeMedicinePsychopathology
Five 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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