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 with treatment-resistant depression found significant relief from brain implants that provide electrical pulses A third of the patients wound up virtually ...

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 ...

The patient returned for additional treatments as scheduled, and within seven weeks, he reported that his suicidal ideation ...

Abbott has launched a pivotal clinical trial to see if its deep-brain stimulation approach can make headway against treatment-resistant depression. The company previously collected green lights for ...

Half of patients with anxiety and depression have been successfully treated using deep-brain stimulation. More than a third (34.6%) saw a "near-complete" elimination of their symptoms, according to a ...

A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single ...

Half of a small group of people who received brain implants experienced significant improvement in their depression symptoms, researchers reported Nov. 18 in the journal Nature Communications. Further ...