Episode
Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey Halpern
Huberman Lab · May 7, 2026 · 38 min
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Casey Halpern, MD, a professor of neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss how deep brain stimulation and other neuromodulation approaches are being used to treat Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), binge eating disorder and depression-related symptoms. We also…