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 😔 and anxiety 😟 in an ‘open label’ trial.
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University of Cambridge
Deep brain stimulation successful for one in two patients with treatment-resistant severe depression and anxiety
Significantly, the study, led by researchers in the UK and China, identified a telltale signature of brain activity that predicted how well individual patients responded to the treatment. This could