Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a crisis of access
Veerle Visser-Vandewalle1, Pablo Andrade2, Philip E Mosley3
1Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. veerle.visser-vandewalle@uk-koeln.de.
Nature Medicine
|July 15, 2022
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