<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2583235c-eefe-4dce-9079-4d61f4b6bf54/F8CD33C0-D343-4462-A187-48533FC3826D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilateral_cingulotomy&oldid=320944077" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilateral_cingulotomy&oldid=320944077" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilateral_cingulotomy&oldid=320944077"><P>The follow up of the patients produced contradictory results, which indicated that bilateral cingulotomy is not the optimal treatment for <A class="mw-redirect" title="OCD" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD">OCD</A> as of today <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dougherty_12-2"><A href="#cite_note-Dougherty-12"><SPAN>[</SPAN>13<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP>. From the 44 patients only 32% could be classified as responders and showed significant improvement compared to the other subjects. Another 14% exhibited some signs of improvement. Multiple cingultomies lead to the increase in responders by 6% and to partial responders by 11%. However, the side effects associated with the procedure were numerous. Among the complaints that patients had after the surgery were deficits in memory and <A title="Apathy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apathy">apathy</A> although these were rarely observed. In addition, some of the subjects complained from some form of <A class="mw-redirect" title="Urinary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary">urinary</A> disturbance ranging from <A title="Urinary retention" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_retention">urinary retention</A> to <A title="Urinary incontinence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_incontinence">incontinence</A>. <A title="Hydrocephalus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus">Hydrocephalus</A> (2%) and <A class="mw-redirect" title="Seizures" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizures">seizures</A> (2%) were also observed <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dougherty_12-3"><A href="#cite_note-Dougherty-12"><SPAN>[</SPAN>13<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilateral_cingulotomy&oldid=320944077">cingulatomy for treatment of <A title="Chronic pain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain">chronic pain</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bilateral_cingulotomy&oldid=320944077">claimed that the surgical procedure was beneficial and contributed to the improvement of their social aspects</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F8CD33C0-D343-4462-A187-48533FC3826D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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