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Brain stimulation may ease stubborn depression | Health | Reuters
Health and Beauty: Brain stimulation may ease stubborn depression
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Gifted submitted 2009/5/9 1:57, published 2009/5/9 1:57 | 256 views
Tags: brain, Depression, stimulation, ease, stubborn
Tags: brain, Depression, stimulation, ease, stubborn
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Targeted electrical stimulation of a particular region of the brain can lessen symptoms of major depression that hasn't improved with other treatments, the results of small pilot study suggest.
Previous research has suggested that this region of the brain -- called the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex -- plays a key role in the development of major depression, Dr. Emad N. Eskandar told Reuters Health.

