As she spoke, Mayberg walked the audience through the scientific rationale for the idea that electrodes pushed down into the brain could alleviate severe depression. Science News sponsorship position.

Mount Sinai's team is one of the most prominent researching DBS for depression in the U.S. There, a neuroimaging expert uses brain images to locate the exact spot to place electrodes.

Maher and her team overcame this by working with eight patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy who already had electrodes ... of brain waves are affected in mood disorders like depression ...

The procedure involves implanting a system of electrodes deep inside the ... access critical structures at the bottom of the ...

features two electrodes which deliver a weak, direct current to the scalp. It is already commercially available and targets an area of the brain linked with low activity in people with depression.

To identify which areas of the man’s brain were triggering depression they implanted 10 electrodes in several regions previously implicated in the disease. Then they monitored and recorded the ...

The clinical trial studies patients with treatment-resistant depression and the effects of electrodes implanted in the brain in reducing symptoms. Fenoy said patients who participate in the trial ...

Many people with depression see good results when they ... a finely controlled electric current is sent through the electrodes to your brain. This current causes a brief seizure in your brain.

In disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or ... rise to brain-machine interfaces for people with brain injuries. In such cases, the electrodes might be used to read their intentions and ...

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic DigitalVision Vectors via . Up until a cou ...

Two small electrodes — thin metal wires ... dementia, traumatic brain injury and depression. “The advantage of focused ultrasound in general is that it is completely noninvasive, it ...