ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: Potential for use as a Novel Ablative Surgical Technique.
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- Effectiveness of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant OCD: Systematic Review of Anatomical Targets and Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Non-Randomized Studies.Brain sciences · 2026Review
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- Shaping the Future of Psychiatric Neurosurgery: From Connectomic Precision to Technological Integration.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Neuroablative Intervention for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Psychiatry investigation · 2023Article
- Unilateral amygdala ablation: a potential treatment option for severe chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Gamma knife capsulotomy for intractable OCD: Neuroimage analysis of lesion size, location, and clinical response.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Characteristics of Focused Ultrasound Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Magnetic Resonance Images.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2023Article
- Efficacy of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Indian Experience.Journal of neurosciences in rural practice · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Ultrasound as a Treatment Modality for Physiological and Pathological Ageing Including Alzheimer's Disease.Pharmaceutics · 2021Review
- Feasibility of Ultrasonic Heating through Skull Phantom Using Single-element Transducer.Journal of medical ultrasoundArticle
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Abstract
Surgical treatment for psychiatric disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression, using ablative techniques, such as cingulotomy and capsulotomy, have historically been controversial for a number of scientific, social, and ethical reasons. Recently, with the elucidation of anatomical and neurochemical substrates of brain function in healthy controls and patients with such disorders using various functional neuroimaging techniques, these criticisms are becoming less valid. Furthermore, by using new techniques, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), and identifying more precise targets, beneficial effects and the lack of serious complications have been demonstrated in patients with psychiatric disorders. However, DBS also has many disadvantages. Currently, magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is used as a minimal-invasive surgical method for generating precisely placed focal thermal lesions in the brain. Here, we review surgical techniques and their potential complications, along with anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC) capsulotomy by radiofrequency lesioning and gamma knife radiosurgery, for the treatment of OCD and depression. We also discuss the limitations and technical issues related to ALIC capsulotomy with MRgFUS for medically refractory OCD and depression. Through this review we hope MRgFUS could be considered as a new treatment choice for refractory OCD.
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