Category: Anxiety disorders

Anxiety Disorder Updates

Anxiety Disorder Updates

There’s nothing new to report about anxiety itself. That’s because it’s a normal human response; some of us experience it intermittently, other chronically. Most of the attention in this class of disorders is on PTSD and OCD. PTSD has aroused debate especially surrounding the definition of the traumatic event that anchors the symptoms. It is [...]

Feb 18, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

FDA Approves “deep brain stimulation” for OCD

The Food and Drug Administration has approved “deep brain stimulation” for treatment resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. This is the first instance that this procedure, which involves the surgical implantation of electrodes deep within the brain to trigger electrical activity, has been approved for use in a psychiatric syndrome. The implants have previously been used [...]

May 26, 2009 | 1 comment View Post