Manic Monday: Brain Pacemaker for Depression
Researchers believe they may have found a new form of treatment that will help depression - a brain pacemaker. Two large, lengthy and in depth studies have shown that a brain pacemaker can treat depression as well as obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr. Ali Rezai, head of neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic, who led the studies, said the technique known as deep brain stimulation helped the most severely depressed patients improve significantly. During the study there were no serious side effects found with using the brain pacemaker.
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