Neurosurgical targets for compulsivity: What can we learn from acquired brain lesions?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 328-339

  Figee, Martijn ^a   Wielaard, Ilse ^b   Mazaheri, Ali ^a   Denys, Damiaan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquired brain lesions; Compulsions; Compulsivity; CSTC circuit; Deep brain stimulation (DBS); Obsessions; Stereotypy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; COMPULSION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REMISSION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 84873256464     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.005     Document Type: Review

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