Deep brain stimulation is an emerging treatment for severe depression, but exactly how it alters the brain to relieve ...

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-label ...

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 ...

A new randomized clinical trial from investigators at Mass General Brigham's Neuroscience Institute and Department of ...

A study by UNIGE, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, has significantly improved the accuracy of a noninvasive brain stimulation technique, paving the way for its use in the treatment of neurological ...

(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Desperate for solutions, some brave patients are now ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging therapy for treatment-resistant neurological and psychiatric disorders. Despite this, little is known about the anatomical and functional mechanisms that ...

Neuroscience is changing treatment for many disorders, including depression. Much of the research is now being done by physical intervention in the brain—deep brain stimulation. Drug discovery ...

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 ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), but response rates vary significantly, ranging from ...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and other targeted, noninvasive neuromodulation approaches offer promise for treating neuropsychiatric conditions. These techniques work by ...