What does psychosurgery involve doing?
Psychosurgery involves destroying brain tissue to disrupt the cortico-striatal circuit by the use of radio-frequency waves
Psychosurgery involves destroying brain tissue to disrupt the cortico-striatal circuit by the use of radio-frequency waves.
This has an effect on the orbital frontal cortex, the thalamus and the caudate nucleus brain areas and is associated with a reduction in symptoms.
What has there been a recent movement towards using?
There’s been a recent movement towards using deep-brain stimulation
Psychosurgery involves destroying brain tissue to disrupt the cortico-striatal circuit by the use of radio-frequency waves.
This has an effect on the orbital frontal cortex, the thalamus and the caudate nucleus brain areas and is associated with a reduction in symptoms.
There’s been a recent movement towards using deep-brain stimulation, which involves using magnetic pulses on the supplementary motor area of the brain, with is associated with doing what?
There’s been a recent movement towards using deep-brain stimulation, which involves using magnetic pulses on the supplementary motor area of the brain, with is associated with blocking out irrelevant:
- Thoughts
- Obsessions
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can have surgery to alter what?
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can have surgery to alter the communication between:
- The orbital frontal cortex
- Other areas of the brain
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can have surgery to alter the communication between the orbital frontal cortex and other areas of the brain or what?
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can:
1. Have surgery to alter the communication between the orbital frontal cortex and other areas of the brain
Or,
2. New experimental techniques
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can have surgery to alter the communication between the orbital frontal cortex and other areas of the brain or new experimental techniques, including deep brain stimulation - what are placed in the brain?
Psychosurgery - Severe cases who don’t respond to drugs can:
1. Have surgery to alter the communication between the orbital frontal cortex and other areas of the brain
Or,
2. New experimental techniques, including deep brain stimulation - electrodes are placed in the brain
CBT:
What is CBT focused on changing?
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking
CBT:
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with what?
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT)
CBT:
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT), where sufferers do what?
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT), where sufferers relive obsessional thoughts repeatedly to reduce the anxiety created
CBT:
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT), where sufferers relive obsessional thoughts repeatedly to reduce the anxiety created.
What are intrusive thoughts shown to be?
Intrusive thoughts are shown to be normal
CBT:
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT), where sufferers relive obsessional thoughts repeatedly to reduce the anxiety created.
Intrusive thoughts are shown to be normal and what do patients come to understand?
Intrusive thoughts are shown to be normal and patients come to understand that thinking about a behaviour isn’t the same as actually doing it
CBT:
CBT is focused on changing obsessional thinking, like with habituation training (HT), where sufferers relive obsessional thoughts repeatedly to reduce the anxiety created.
Intrusive thoughts are shown to be normal and patients come to understand that thinking about a behaviour isn’t the same as actually doing it.
Sufferers are taught to focus on their estimations of potential risks and realistically do what?
Sufferers are taught to:
- Focus on their estimations of potential risks
- Realistically assess the likelihood of them occurring
CBT:
Although CBT is seen as the most effective treatment for OCD, when are even higher success rates found?
Although CBT is seen as the most effective treatment for OCD, even higher success rates are found when it is combined with drug treatments