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Despite the development of effective pharmacologic and cognitive behavioral treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), some patients continue to be treatment-refractory and severely impaired. These patients are potential candidates for neurosurgery. Since the discovery that lesioning of the anterior limb of the internal capsule may alleviate the symptoms of OCD, stereotactic radiosurgery has been used in selected cases with promising outcomes. Radiosurgical targets and dose characteristics have evolved in recent decades with a limited number of series. CyberKnife radiosurgery will play a role in expanding the knowledge on patient selection, target, and radiation dose.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, CyberKnife Radiosurgery Center, Medicana International Ankara Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Sait Sirin & Kaan Oysul

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  1. Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alfredo Conti

  2. Scientific Director, AB Medica, Milano, Italy

    Pantaleo Romanelli

  3. Assistant Professor, Medical Physics Laboratory, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Evangelos Pantelis

  4. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, CA, USA

    Scott G. Soltys

  5. Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young Hyun Cho

  6. Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael Lim

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Sirin, S., Oysul, K. (2020). Behavioral/Psychiatric Disorders. In: Conti, A., Romanelli, P., Pantelis, E., Soltys, S., Cho, Y., Lim, M. (eds) CyberKnife NeuroRadiosurgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50668-1_50

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