Menchón, José M.
Real, Eva
Alonso, Pino
Aparicio, Marco Alberto
Segalas, Cinto
Plans, Gerard
Luyten, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5380-0851
Brunfaut, Els
Matthijs, Laurean
Raymakers, Simon
Bervoets, Chris http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-2823
Higueras, Antonio
Katati, Majed
Guerrero, José
Hurtado, Mariena
Prieto, Mercedes
Stieglitz, Lennart H.
Löffelholz, Georg
Walther, Sebastian
Pollo, Claudio
Zurowski, Bartosz
Tronnier, Volker
Kordon, Andreas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1045-1994
Gambini, Orsola
Ranieri, Rebecca
Franzini, Angelo
Messina, Giuseppe
Radu-Djurfeldt, Diana
Schechtmann, Gaston
Chen, Long-Long
Eitan, Renana
Israel, Zvi
Bergman, Hagai http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2402-6673
Brelje, Tim
Brionne, Thomas C.
Conseil, Aurélie
Gielen, Frans
Schuepbach, Michael
Nuttin, Bart
Gabriëls, Loes
Article History
Received: 28 December 2017
Revised: 30 September 2019
Accepted: 12 October 2019
First Online: 29 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: TCB, FG, and TB are employees of Medtronic and received standard salaries during the conduct of the study. LB received personal fees for study design and data collection during the conduct of the study. BN is the first author on a patent on DBS for OCD, and received grants as Chair ‘Neuromodulation, an endowment from Medtronic’ and ‘Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders’, from Medtronic during the conduct of the study. AK, MP and BZ received grants from Medtronic during the conduct of the study. RE received compensation and equipment support, MS received funding of study procedures and VT received funding of travelcosts, all them from Medtronic during the conduct of the study. Bellvitge University Hospital and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Naz Neurologico C.Besta received partial financial support for the conduct of the study.
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committees of all participant hospitals (see Affiliations)
: All patients provided two informed consents: one for the screening phase and another one for the implant and treatment phases.