Canadian researchers found one brain surgery technique as safe and effective for sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder.Umm, no they didn't.
You fried a portion of their brains and one-third of them had one-third improvement in their symptoms.The study, conducted by researchers at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, involved 19 patients who underwent a type of psychosurgery called bilateral capsulotomy between 1997 and 2009. The surgery damages tissue (by creating lesions) in a part of the brain called the internal capsule.Before the surgery, patients scored an average of 34 out of 40 points (extreme OCD) on a test designed to measure the severity of the condition.
After surgery, the average score decreased to 23, which is considered moderate OCD.
About 37 percent of patients responded fully to the surgery, meaning their score improved by at least 35 percent, and about 10 percent partially responded to the surgery, meaning their score improved by 25 percent.
And you permanently disabled 2 of them. That's 10%.
And you call this a success for psychosurgery? You need to have your head examined.
Apparently while you were practicing your quackery and painting that pretty face on your frightening data, you failed to notice that current research shows OCD is caused by bacteria and treatable with antibiotics .
Your surgery addresses that problem as effectively as the SSRI's and antipsychotics and psychotherapy (ha!). And it's expensive and invasive and the inevitable "unintended consequences" are still unknown.
Here at this blog- your techniques will continue to be vilified.
