Management under the control over products and medicines of the USA (FDA) has approved to application a method of treatment of obsessivno-compulsive disorder by means of a brain electrical stimulation.

The device for electrical stimulation Reclaim Deep Brain Stimulator, let out by firm Medtronic, consists of the generator of electric impulses implanted under a skin of a thorax, and bridged with it wires of microelectrodes which place in the departments of a brain responsible for mood and uneasiness. Constantly submitted electric impulses stimulate these zones of a brain that suppresses obsessional conditions.

The brain electrical stimulation while is approved only for those patients who were helped by traditional methods of treatment (medicinal therapy). And electrical stimulation application presumably should be combined with reception of medicinal preparations.