Neurosurgery and refractory obsessive-compulsive disease: a case report

Neurosurgical treatment in psychiatry is an uncommon technique that is only used in some serious mental diseases which are very refractory to conventional treatment. There is no doubt that the documented cases have efficiently contributed to those cases where combined treatment (drug-psychotherapy) does not lead to clear improvement and where the course leads to serious psychosocial deterioration. We present a clinical case of neurosurgery in obsessive compulsive disease with good results. This seems to be a good strategy to make the results of these techniques known because of the shortage of controlled studies published.