Monday, June 11, 2018

Deep Brain Stimulation, OCD and Diabetes

As many of us are aware, a good number of scientific findings, such as the discovery of penicillin, have been made by accident. Well here’s another one to add to the list.

A May 23, 2018 article published in the journal Science Translational Medicine reports a surprising side effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS), which is sometimes used in the hardest to treat cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was observed that an obese man with type 2 diabetes underwent DBS for OCD, and his...


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