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Video Report: Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders?

Publish date: February 23, 2011
By
Esther French

 

A panel of experts at the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science discussed the potential of deep brain stimulation for treatment of certain psychiatric disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.

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