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October 4, 2021 03:02 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/22708802/brain-stimulation-device-depression-treatment
A surgically implanted brain stimulation device could help treat severe depression
Sarah had no options left. Over five years, she’d tried every possible treatment for her severe depression, and nothing had helped. “My daily life had become so restricted and impoverished by depression that I felt tortured by each day,” the 36-year-old said.
But after undergoing an experimental procedure that implanted a device into her brain, she felt her depression lift for the first time in years. “It was like my lens on the world changed,” Sarah, who is remaining anonymous because of the stigma around depression, said during a press briefing.
Sarah was the patient in a proof-of-concept trial of a new approach to treating severe, treatment-resistant depression, published today in the journal Nature Medicine. The findings open up...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/22708802/brain-stimulation-device-depression-treatment
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