DBS FOR SEVERE, TREATMENT REFRACTORY OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER. The idea that brain surgery can help someone suffering from a mental illness is still a controversial and, to many people, a confronting one. However, there is now firm evidence that a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) can improve the lives and relieve the crippling and distressing symptoms for some people suffering from very severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). There have now been four placebo-controlled trials (one of which was Australian) providing…..
BRAIN EFFECTS OF COVID-19. A recent study from Oxford University confirmed that Covid-19 often does produce changes in the brain during and after infection. These changes may explain some of the symptoms of ‘Long Covid’. The study compared MRI imaging before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most of the infections studied were not associated with severe illness. Participants in the study who had experienced a Covid-19 infection had more grey matter loss and abnormalities in the area of the brain associated…..