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The debilitating behaviours and all-consuming thoughts, which affect people with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), could be significantly improved with targeted deep brain stimulation, according to new research published today.

"This is not some deep dark problem of behavior—OCD is a medical problem, and not anyone's fault. With brain imaging we can study it just like heart specialists study EKGs..."