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• Depression Symptoms: Disease or State of Mind? Learn How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Can Help

  
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  A major survey on depression symptoms from the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), released in July 2004, revealed a dramatic degree of progress in public understanding. Yet even amid this promising trend, the survey sheds light on the difficultiesThe NMHA survey shows a major shift in public opinion in the ...
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• Discovery Channel to Feature Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Depresssion

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

  
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  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 ...
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• Psychiatrist Begin Training About Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression

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

  
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  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. ...
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• Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

  
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  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 ...
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• Insurance Plans are Reimbursing Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Depression

  
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  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 ...
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• Top Fifteen Definitions for Understanding Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

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

  
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  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

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

  
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  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 ...
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• A Look at the Different Depression and Anxiety Medications

  
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  While it may be easy to recite the various brand names and generalize their benefits enough to know they put us (or are supposed to put us) in a better mood, for lack of a better term, the drugs themselves can all be categorized individually, each working in a slightly different way.The following is a [...]
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• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Should be Used Early in Treatment when Traditional Antidepressants Fail

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

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

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

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

  
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  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 ...
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• FDA Approves Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Treatment for Depression

  
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  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 ...
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• Senate Finance Committee Delays FDA Approval of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Depression

  
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  On June 15th, 2004, FDA?s Medical Devices Panel recommended that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve vagus nerve stimulation as a therapy for chronic or recurrent treatment-resistant depression. I was at the meeting, seated in the first row and made a presentation to the Panel.Yet, one year later, we still ...
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• Sources of Online Suicide Help for People Suffering from Severe Depression

  
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  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 ...
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