US EditionNext-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression
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Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression
Her relapse into depression felt like defeat—but it offered vital clues to achieving lasting psychiatric relief.The 67-year-old woman from Alabama had already endured four major depressive episodes in her decades-long battle with mental illness. After exhausting numerous medications and other therapies, in 2015 she turned to an experimental last resort: deep brain stimulation, or DBS.Neurosurgeons implanted electrodes a few inches below her skul…
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