Deep brain stimulation appears to help some people with depression Half of a small group of people with treatment-resistant depression found significant relief from brain implants that provide ...

A research team led by a three-time recipient of BBRF grants has successfully tested a method of using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a non-invasive method of brain stimulation, to activate ...

In the sixth episode of The Deep End, we’ll look to the future for Jon and his family and for DBS research. The research is pushing ahead, with a clinical trial of DBS for treatment-resistant ...

Northwell Health is conducting a clinical trial to address treatment-resistant depression using similar technology used to treat neurological diseases like Parkinson’s in an effort to seek options for ...

At a Friday lecture, Helen Mayberg, a professor of neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, spoke about her pioneering work in deep brain ...

Brain implants that deliver electric pulses can ease depression in people who aren't responding to psychiatric drugs, a new study says. Half of a small group of people who received brain implants ...

Discover how TMS therapy targets depression at the source. A deep dive into the physics, safety protocols, and FDA-cleared ...

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of ‘pacemaker’ – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an ‘open ...

A team of experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has become the first in the United States to perform a deep brain stimulation (DBS) implantation procedure as part of a multi-site, ...

As humans, we tend to consider our emotional states as a direct response to the experiences of our lives. Traffic may make us frustrated, betrayal may make us angry, or the ever-grinding wear of ...

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 ...

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific ...