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Neurosurgical treatment of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with Tourette's syndrome

✍ Scribed by Dr. Roger Kurlan; Jonathan Kersun; H. Thomas Ballantine Jr.; Eric D. Caine

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
427 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We describe two patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) and disabling obsessive‐compulsive and ritualistic behaviors who underwent bilateral radiofrequency anterior cingulotomy. Both achieved a limited but sustained improvement in behavioral symptoms and overall functional abilities. Our observations indicate involvement of limbic structures in this disorder. The procedure should be considered for patients with TS complicated by resistant obsessive‐compulsive disorder.

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