Deep brain stimulation can improve compulsive behaviors and mood in patients with Parkinson's disease.

“often these side effects could be therapeutic and actually that's how we have discovered ways to use deep brain stimulation not just for movement disorders like Parkinson's disease but for example patients with Parkinson's disease that have a psychiatric uh uh comorbidity like depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder a lot of these patients are highly compulsive and impulsive sometimes these problems actually melt away and we're trying to help their Tremor but the patients also tell us that their gambling issue has gotten better or their mood has improved”