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• Discovery Channel to Feature Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Depresssion

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  The Discovery Health Channel?s Medical Incredible series will air a segment about a new FDA-approved Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy treatment for chronic depression on June 26th at 9 p.m. EDT. I am featured in the segemnt, a former sufferer of chronic depression and patient in the study of vagus nerve stimulation ...
  1 week ago

• Psychiatrist Begin Training About Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  The manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator has begun face-to face meetings with psychiatrists nationwide to educate them about vagus nerve stimulation therapy, how it works and for whom this treatment is indicated. It is very important that both you and your psychiatrist fully understand vagus nerve stimulation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Fifteen Definitions for Understanding Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Vagus nerve stimulation was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) as an adjunctive treatment for chronic or recurrent depression. Here are some basic definitions to help you better understand this remarkable treatment: Adjunctive Additional, add-on. Used to describe a treatment used at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insurance Companies are Beginning to Reimburse for Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Insurance Companies are beginning to reimburse for vagus nerve stimulation therapy for depression. Insurance companies are giant bureacracies who have layers of people to whose only job is to say “no”.Reimbursement decisions are being made on a case-by-by case basis. According to the manufacturer of the vagus ...
  3 weeks ago

• Depression is the Number One Cause of Disability in the United States

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  According to the World Health Organization, 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the United States and other developed countries are mental disorders, including major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Approximately 23% of American adults each year have a diagnosable mental disorder and as many as ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy is indicated for use as an adjunctive long-term treatment of chronic or recurrent depression for patients over the age of 18 who are experiencing a major depressive episode and have not had an adequate response to four or more adequate antidepressant treatments.Where other treatments ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Should be Used Early in Treatment when Traditional Antidepressants Fail

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Lifetime Prevalence of Depression and the Age-of-Onset Report Distributions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication The paragraph title sounds complicated, but the study conclusions are critical and simple to understand. Lifetime prevalence ...
  3 weeks ago

• Efficacy and Safety of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression Published in Journal

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  On September 1st, the efficacy and safety of vagus nerve stimulation for depresssion was published in the prestigious peer reviewed journal of Biological Psychiatry.The data from the pivotal clinical trial of vagus nerve stimulation and depression was been on published September 1st, in the prestigious peer-reviewed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chronic Depression is the Leading Cause of Disability in the World

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  According to the landmark “Global Burden of Disease” study, mental disorders are the second leading source of disease burden in established market economies and major depression alone ranked as the leading causes of disability. Major depression takes an enormous toll on functional status, productivity, and quality ...
  3 weeks ago

• New FDA Approved Therapy for Depression: Timeline from Prescription to Procedure

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  On July 18, 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic depression. On August 18th, I was a part of a conference call hosted by the manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator.According to Company officials, it is going to take a long time for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Major Depression is the Leading Cause of Disability in the World

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  According to the World Health Organization, major Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world. The only FDA approved long term treatment option for major depression is vagus nerve stimulation.It is the most common and widespread of all psychiatric disorders, and it takes a significant toll on ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Approves Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Treatment for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  On July 15th, 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved vagus nerve stimulation “for the adjunctive long-term treatment of chronic or recurrent depression for patients 18 years of age or older..”. This approval concludes the formal seven year study of vagus nerve stimulation and depression.It is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sources of Online Suicide Help for People Suffering from Severe Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  There are Many Resources for Online Suicide HelpFirst of all, if you are currently having suicidal ideations please immediately call:1-800-SUICIDE (800-748-2433)This is the National Hopeline and you will be connected to a trained counselor in your local area that can help you.There are many sources of online suicide ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doctors of Deception – by Linda Andre, book review

  
  Beyond Meds — Authority: 136
  This was first published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 21 (2009) 171–173 Linda Andre alerted me to it’s being available.Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock TreatmentLinda Andre (Rutgers University Press, NJ, USA), 2009, ISBN: 978-0-8135-4441-0, ...
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• The Relationship Between Pain and Chronic or Major Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  When I suffered from severe depression before I was rescued by vagus nerve stimulation, my whole body would ache. From head ache, down to my shoulders and arms, I was in constant physical pain. Depression takes a toll on the body. Researchers are just beginning to recognize the relationship between depression and ...
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• Chronic Depression: Disease or Charcter Flaw?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  A major survey on depression symptoms from the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), released in july 2001, revealed a dramatic degree of progress in public understanding. Yet even amid this promising trend, the survey sheds light on the difficulties faced by millions of people striving to manage this sometimes ...
  3 weeks ago

• New brain stimulation treatment may offer hope for those with treatment resistant depression

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  October 13, 2009 Charleston, S.C.--A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation (EpCS) was found generally safe and provided significant improvement of depressive symptoms in a small group of patients, according to ...
  4 weeks ago

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