Andrew Huberman· PhD
We cannot say that any one individual treatment works for everybody. There are fairly large percentages of people that won't respond to one set of treatments or another, and therefore one has to try different ones.
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We cannot say that any one individual treatment works for everybody. There are fairly large percentages of people that won't respond to one set of treatments or another, and therefore one has to try different ones.
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Now, up until now, I've been talking about the fact that people are getting relief from these treatments, but sadly, in the case of OCD, there is a significant population that simply does not respond to CBT or to SSRIs, or to their combination, which is why psychiatrists also explore the combination of SSRIs and neuroleptics or drugs that tap into the so-called dopamine system or the glutamate system.
but there's still about 30 of patients that still suffer from OCD and some of them have severe OCD sometimes it's moderate to severe
The these are all fabulously helpful uh therapies for a variety of patients, but there's still about 30% of patients that still suffer from OCD and some of them have severe OCD. Sometimes it's moderate to severe and those are the patients that I'm really motivated to try to help.