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What Casey Halpern has said on podcasts
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Deep brain stimulation places an insulated wire into a brain region involved in Parkinson’s disease.
“Deep brain stimulation is a procedure where we have to place a very thin wire that's insulated deep into a part of the brain that's involved in Parkinson's disease”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 1:40
Clinical electrode stimulation can immediately relieve tremor.
“If we can deliver stimulation through that electrode in the clinic, we have immediate relief of tremor.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 4:01
Controlled obsessive-compulsive traits can be advantageous, but uncontrolled traits constitute OCD.
“if it can be controlled, it's an asset. But if it goes awry and is uncontrollable, then it becomes obsessive compulsive disorder.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 6:39
SSRIs and tricyclics are useful first-line medication options for OCD.
“SSRIs are sort of the first line for OCD, but also tricyclics can be helpful.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 7:02
Exposure and response prevention is probably the most effective OCD treatment option.
“Exposure, response, prevention, is probably the most effective option”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 7:33
About 30% of OCD patients continue suffering despite standard therapies.
“there's still about 30% of patients that still suffer from OCD.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 8:17
Surgical OCD treatments generally achieve an approximately 50% responder rate.
“We can generally achieve a responder rate of about 50%”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 9:51
Perturbing the nucleus accumbens appears to influence compulsive behavior.
“When it's perturbed, it seems to gate compulsive behavior”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 12:41
Nucleus accumbens-cortical circuits are likely major circuits in compulsive disorders and addiction.
“the nucleus accumbens and the cortical areas that we've been discussing that sort of send projections to these areas are probably at least one of the main circuits involved in these kinds of things.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 14:01
Repeated exposure to strong rewards can disrupt normal nucleus accumbens functioning.
“repeated exposure to something like a drug of abuse or any type of reward, that is a really strong reward in a way, it can hijack normal functioning of the nucleus accumbens.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 15:30
TMS may identify and modulate circuits that temporarily improve OCD.
“We believe we can use TMS to define a circuit that if modulated, improves ocd, albeit temporarily.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 20:52
A targeted TMS treatment for anorexia and obesity may eventually be developed.
“perhaps one day there will be a TMS target for anorexia and obesity.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 21:22
Disease-specific human brain studies will eventually enable noninvasive lesion or modulation treatments.
“in the end, it's getting into the human brain that we need to do in the disease specifically, that will eventually lead to a non invasive approach, either a lesion or modulatory approach.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 27:13
- on Cognitive behavioral therapy for compulsive disordersNegativeMay 7, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Stopping cognitive behavioral therapy causes many patients to return to previous behaviors.
“if you stop it, many of these patients go back to their old behaviors.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 32:16
Physiological signals can potentially anticipate the onset of impulsive behavior.
“I certainly think that there is a way to use our own body's physiology to anticipate when these impulses are coming online”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 35:22
- on Deep brain stimulation and compulsive-disorder burdenNegativeMay 7, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Deep brain stimulation has treated roughly 200,000 people, versus compulsive-disorder problems affecting 50 million Americans.
“You know, we've only done about 200,000 deep brain stimulation surgeries ever. So I mean, the problem we're talking about here is 50 million Americans.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey HalpernListen at 36:00
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