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ReviewBiological psychiatry2026

Deep Brain Stimulation Response Circuits in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Andreas Horn, Ningfei Li, Garance M Meyer, Ron Gadot, Nicole R Provenza, Sameer A Sheth

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Review in Biological psychiatry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. A Multi-Symptom Circuit Architecture of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Andreas HornInstitute for Network Stimulation, Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ahorn1@bwh.harvard.edu.
Ningfei LiInstitute for Network Stimulation, Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Garance M MeyerCenter for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ron GadotDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Nicole R ProvenzaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Sameer A ShethDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Funding

BRAIN CONNECTS: The center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC)UM1NS132358 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Suzanne N Haber, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman · 2023 to 2026
$17.5M
Using human brain connectivity to identify the causal neuroanatomical substrate of depression symptomsR01MH113929 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2017 to 2026
$6.9M
Building Mood State Classifiers to Inform Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of Treatment-Resistant Bipolar DepressionUH3NS136631 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Wayne K Goodman, Jeffrey A. Herron · 2024 to 2026
$5.8M
Toward Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation in Obsessive Compulsive DisorderR01MH130666 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Using Brain Lesions and Deep Brain Stimulation to Identify an Epilepsy CircuitR01NS127892 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113929NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130666NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127892NINDS NIH HHS UH3 NS136631NINDS NIH HHS UM1 NS132358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the field of deep brain stimulation (DBS), 2 major themes are currently making significant progress. The first of these is the framework of connectomic DBS, in which circuits that are associated with improvements of specific symptoms are described and targeted to improve and potentially personalize treatment. The second theme is related to the concept of brain sensing and adaptive DBS, which are aimed at identifying neural biomarkers that may guide stimulation in a closed-loop fashion. In DBS for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), substantial progress has been made on both ends over the last 5 years. Together, the results have begun to draw a picture of exactly which circuit is associated with treatment response and how it may be affected by dysfunctional brain activity that may be attenuated using DBS. This knowledge, if further refined and validated, will define where, when, and how to stimulate which patients with OCD. We review the key studies from recent years with the aim of aggregating and condensing findings along both spatial and temporal domains. The result is a concept that anatomically defines a circuit that is likely dysfunctional in patients with typical OCD phenotypes and that may be adaptively targeted using DBS to maximally improve symptoms.

Indexed as

BrainDeep Brain StimulationNerve NetObsessive-Compulsive DisorderConnectomeHumansBrain sensingCircuit therapeuticsDeep brain stimulation (DBS)NeuroimagingObsessive-compulsive disorder

Identifiers

PMID40120789
PMCPMC12353860

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