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• When Antidepressants Fail to Work: Brain-Stimulating Techniques for Treatment Resistant Depression

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 520
  How do you recover from treatment-resistant depression? Possibly ECT, TMS, or VNS? Brain-stimulating techniques.
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• NeuroStar TMS Depression Therapy System First To Be Given FDA Approval

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 520
  I found this review of Neuronetics NueroStar TMS Therapy system which I thought was worthy of passing on. Sean Fallow of Gizmodo.com writes:  Last year, Neuronetics NeuroStar TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Therapy system became the first device of its...
  3 days ago

• ECT & Media Portrayals of Depression Treatment Options

  
  Vicarious Therapy — Authority: 413
  Dr Shocks blog is a wonderful mix of informative articles, videos and analysis of a variety of things from music, travel and art, to psychiatry and back. Of course, his focus is psychiatry, but the renaissance man in him shines through in his blog. In one of his recent posts... "Illuminate Depression" he has ...
  1 week ago

• Discovery Channel to Feature Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Depresssion

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  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

• US News & World Report Discusses Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The February 20th issue of U.S. News & World Report features Miracles of Brain Repair on its cover. The article is a very good resource for learning more about vagus nerve stimulation therapy as a treatment for depression.Welcome to the new science of brain repair notes the author, Josh Fischman. Doctors are now ...
  2 weeks ago

• Caged

  
  Vicarious Therapy — Authority: 413
  (Thoughts like this post are partly why I stopped writing for a while...yeah I didnt have the internet at home, but I also couldnt find the energy to make the effort to get outside my home and make my way to the library only a few short blocks from my house, to rant about my depression, anger and inability to get ...
  2 weeks ago

• Psychiatrist Begin Training About Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  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

• Attacking Treatment-Resistant Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  In some cases, medication for depression just simply does not work. The doctor gives you pills, you take them for a while, and you still feel down. In that case, here are a couple of possibilities to consider:*You really have bipolar disorder, only the manic phase never happens. *You have pre-diabetes.Let’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patient Registry Started for the Medical Breakthrough Treatment of Vagus Nerve Stimulation

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  In an effort to further understand why vagus nerve stimulation therapy is more effective than anitidepressants with patients who suffer from chronic depression, the manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator, Cyberonics, Inc., announced the launch of the first treatment-resistant depression(TRD) patient registry. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Chronic or Treatment-Resistant Depression About Vagus Nerve Stimulation(VNS) VNS is not brain surgery, although it is a treatment that affects the function of the brain. Vagus Nerve Stimulation uses specific stimulation of the vagus nerve to send stimulation to specific parts of the brain ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insurance Plans are Reimbursing Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Over 120 different insurance companies and plans have reimbursed at least one case of vagus nerve therapy for depression.Reimbursement decisions continue to be made on a case-by-case basis. However is it important to note that 127 different payers have reimbursed VNS Therapy? for at least case of treatment-resistant ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  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

• Major Symposium About Vagus Nerve Stimulation & Depression at the American Psychiatric Associati

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  A major symposium about vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic or recurrent depression will be presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting in May. This is the largest gathering of psychiatrists in the world and over 25,000 psychiatrists will be in attendance.On February 3, 2005, ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  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

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression Conference

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  I attended the Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression Conference at the headuarters of the manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator in Houston. The meeting was attended by the leading psychiatric thought leaders in the United States.The scientists and researchers at the conference made the some comments that are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adult Men and Women Who Suffer From Chronic Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Market surveys on women, men and depression suggest an estimated 4.4 million Americans are believed to suffer from chronic treatment-resistant depression. Depression is a chronic, disabling disorder and a major worldwide public health problem. Depressive episodes usually recur over time, with risk for further episodes ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Kind of Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 545
  In a recent online publication about another form of brain stimulation in treatment resistant depression showed promising results. The electrodes are placed on the brain instead of in the brain as with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS): A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Deems Vagus Nerve Therapy Approvable as a Treatment for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  On February 3, 2005 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator (Cyberonics, Inc.) that it had deemed its VNS Therapy System approvable as a long-term adjunctive treatment for patients over the age of 18 with chronic or recurrent treatment-resistant depression in ...
  4 weeks ago

• How You Can Learn To Treat Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  When a person undertakes a course of therapy through their doctor, and there is no improvement, they may be suffering from a treatment resistant depression.This is difficult, and takes time to diagnose, since by its nature, depression is not an illness that can be cured with a ten-day course of drugs, like an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation: What are the Benefits and How Does It Relieve Depression?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Vagus nerve stimulation is more effective than antidepressants and is not related to brain surgery or shock treatments. It is a 60-90 minute out-patient procedure, with robust antidepressant affects on the brain.The implant procedure is performed by a surgeon. A pacemaker-like device is implanted in your upper left ...
  4 weeks ago

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