Patient treated for OCD, epilepsy — with an electrified brain implant
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In order to program the device to treat OCD, a team of experts needed to determine what neural triggers they were looking for. “It wasn’t instantaneous. It took a few months to notice changes,” she stated. “I slowly started noticing things disappearing from my routine. Then, more things would disappear.”
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