| Literature DB >> 19996247 |
Anita Taub1, Antonio Carlos Lopes, Daniel Fuentes, Carina Chaubet D'Alcante, Maria Eugenia de Mathis, Miguel Montes Canteras, Marilena Siviero, Benjamin D Greenberg, Georg Norén, Marcelo Batistuzzo, Marcelo Queiroz Hoexter, Soraya Cecílio, Cary Savage, Steven Rasmussen, Euripedes Constantino Miguel.
Abstract
Five refractory obsessive-compulsive patients were assessed using a neuropsychological battery after a modified gamma knife capsulotomy. The surgical technique was not associated with profound cognitive deficits. The authors found improvements in attention, vocabulary, learning, abstract reasoning, and memory.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19996247 DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2009.21.4.393
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci ISSN: 0895-0172 Impact factor: 2.198