Deep Brain Stimulation

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• Deep brain stimulation offers hope for severely depressed

  
  Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info — Authority: 140
  May work even when other treatments have been unsuccessful University of Bonn Thanks to a new method there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. Physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne used deep brain stimulation to treat ten patients with very severe depression ...
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• Deep Brain Stimulation Animation

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 500
  Excellent animation of deep brain stimulation thanks to the Cleveland Clinic Related posts: Hands on Blog For Deep Brain Stimulation There is a new blog with the written hands... Hands on Experience with Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression Recently I found a hands on experience blog for... New ...
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• 4 Kinds of Brain-Stimulating Techniques

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 521
  Here is a concise summary of four brain-stimulating techniques being used today to treat severe chronic depression. The summary appeared in the Fall 2006 Issue of the Johns Hopkinss Bulletin.  1. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the oldest and the...
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• Probing into Depression - Research Blogging / by Dave Munger

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Cool - there has been research into deep brain stimulation for quite some time, and it looks like its starting to show promise for clinical depression that does not respond to drugs and might otherwise require ECT. Probing into Depression Research Blogging / by Dave Munger / November 11, 2009 ...
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• New therapy gives hope for very severe depression

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 139
  In deep brain stimulation, doctors specifically target the impaired function of certain areas of the brain with an electric brain pacemaker. For the purpose of this study, they implanted electrodes in what is known as the nucleus accumbens. That is an important part of the ‘reward system’ which ensures that we ...
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• Deep brain stimulation may help treat people with severe depression

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Patients with severe depression can now be cured, thanks to physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne, who have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation.The method involved implanting electrodes in the patients’ nucleus accumbens-a centre in the brain that plays a key ...
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