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SUMMARY:Clinician Perspectives on the Potential of DBS for Pediatric Patients with Treatment-Resistant OCD
DESCRIPTION:
 Update: This seminar is postponed and will not 
 take place on February 15. It will be rescheduled 
 for a future date to be determined.\n
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 Join us for this free webinar from Michelle T. 
 Pham, PhD, presented as part of the 2022-2023 
 Bioethics Public Seminar Series. Register: 
 https://bit.ly/bioethics-pham\n
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 The World Society 
 for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 
 has argued that at least two successful 
 randomized controlled trials should be available 
 before deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment 
 for a psychiatric disorder is considered 
 "established." DBS is currently offered to 
 children ages 7 and older with refractory dystonia 
 under an FDA-humanitarian device exemption. 
 No randomized control trials were conducted 
 - practitioners relied on evidence from 
 DBS use in adults. In addition, accumulated research 
 supports the safety and effectiveness 
 of DBS for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 
 in adults (Wu et al. 2021). Approximately 
 10-20% of children with OCD have treatment-resistant 
 presentations, so it is likely that there 
 will be interest in offering DBS for some 
 children (POTS 2004). Both ethical and empirical 
 anticipatory work is needed to evaluate 
 whether, and if so, under what conditions it 
 might be appropriate to offer DBS in this context. 
 This seminar will present qualitative 
 data from semi-structured interviews with 24 
 clinicians with expertise in this area regarding: 
 (a) acceptable levels of evidence to offer 
 DBS in this patient population and (b) institutional 
 policies or protocols needed to effectively 
 provide care for them.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Bioethics and Social Justice\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.bioethics.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Liz McDaniel\n
 Contact email: center@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://bioethics.msu.edu/public-seminars/22-23-series\n
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom webinar)
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