Posts by Darin Dean Dougherty, MD
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Potential Neural Targets Identified for Treatment of Trichotillomania and Skin-picking Disorder
Darin D. Dougherty, MD, MMSc, Amy T. Peters, PhD, and colleagues detected reduced frontal-subcortical activation during an associative learning task in patients with trichotillomania and/or skin-picking disorder, suggesting potential neural targets for psychotropic treatment.
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Novel Approach to Mental Illness? Brain Implant Detects, Improves Deficits in Cognitive Control
Neuroscience researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have created a closed-loop system that can sense a cognitive control deficit in real time and respond immediately with targeted electric stimulation to restore normal neural activity.
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Biomarker-driven Deep Brain Stimulation May Be Possible in Psychiatry
After uncovering clues to the mechanism of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders, researchers believe it should be possible to improve the efficacy of this therapy.
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