brain stimulation

The 'brain-pacers'

...  'brain-pacers' With the advances in magnetic resonance imaging and safer technology, hundreds of people have had electrical brain stimulation for the treatment of severe pain not controlled by medication, and a number for the relief of severe depression, phantom… Continue reading

UTHealth Study to Assess Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatmentresistant Depression

...  study to assess deep brain stimulation for treatment–resistant depression A pilot study at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) will assess the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the medial forebrain bundle of the… Continue reading

What Are the Treatments of Depression?

...  therapy, which focuses on the problems you are currently facing and on helping you find solutions to those problems. Family therapy, a type of counseling involving the entire family. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be used to treat severe depression… Continue reading

South Florida Injury and Rehab

...  various massage therapies and pain management. The medical services available at the center … Read more on Akron Leader PublicationsHeart Health questions answered on Valentine's Day On Feb. 14, 2014, Tomball Regional Medical Center will host its first-ever… Continue reading

Greenville Hopes Brain-Treatment Center Will Be Catalyst for Recovery

...  hopes brain-treatment center will be catalyst for recovery … in deep brain stimulation more than 15 years ago, said the treatment is promising for patients with a wide variety of disorders, ranging from Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and stroke to… Continue reading

Self-Control Problems? Electrical Brain Stimulation Increases Cognitive

...  Problems? Electrical Brain Stimulation Increases Cognitive … Although the neuroscientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the University of San Diego admit victims of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS) shouldn't expect EBS to… Continue reading

Can Hacking the Brain Make You Healthier?

...  Hacking The Brain Make You Healthier? Three months after surgery, he was walking like a normal child. Lozano is a pioneer in deep brain stimulation. His team has mapped out areas of the human brain and pioneered novel… Continue reading

Getting to the Root of Eating Disorders

...  to the Root of Eating Disorders Preliminary studies testing a new technique called deep brain stimulation, used successfully to treat people with Parkinson's disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder, have suggested that this also may be effective in treating eating… Continue reading

Physical Activity as an Alternative Treatment for Depression

...  Look to Battle Depression The symptoms of seasonal and regular depression are often the same, but the treatment is not, Kohtz said. Because seasonal depression has a foreseeable end, many patients are more optimistic to take a doctor or… Continue reading

Depression, Anxiety, Diet & Life Style, Christine Marquette, Nutrition & Fitness

...  Anxiety, Diet & Life Style, Christine Marquette, Nutrition & Fitness Depression, Anxiety, Diet & Life Style, Christine Marquette, Nutrition & Fitness How does diet and life style affect mental health issues such as depression …     Magnetic brain… Continue reading