Posts Tagged ‘severe depression’
Study: Personalized, closed-loop neuromodulation can (one day) become a “pacemaker for the brain”
Treating Severe Depression with On-Demand Brain Stimulation (UCSF press release): UCSF Health physicians have successfully treated a patient with severe depression by tapping into the specific brain circuit involved in depressive brain patterns and resetting them using the equivalent of a pacemaker for the brain. “This study points the way to a new paradigm that is…
Read MoreReinventing depression treatment via transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS)
___ Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90% of participants in small study (press release): “A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of participants in a small study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine … In transcranial magnetic stimulation, electric currents…
Read MoreEthical issues raised around deep brain stimulation (DBS) research
Researchers grapple with the ethics of testing brain implants (Science): “In 2003, neurologist Helen Mayberg of Emory University in Atlanta began to test a bold, experimental treatment for people with severe depression, which involved implanting metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25. The initial data were promising; eventually, they convinced…
Read MoreNext: Targeted neurotechnology to augment–perhaps even take over–neuropharmacology
Neurotechnology offers new solutions to treating brain diseases (Dell Tech Culture): “A new wave of medical technologies is changing the way we approach studying the brain and treating patients suffering from neurological diseases and mental illness. For people suffering from Parkinson’s, epilepsy, OCD and severe depression, these technological advancements are
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