Novel brain stimulation approach treats severe depression

 https://www.bcm.edu/news/novel-brain-stimulation-approach-treats-severe-depression

"first person to participate in a clinical trial using deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat... treatment resistant depression (TRD)... Patients are awake during surgery as electrical leads are implanted in their brain. This procedure uses a first-of-its-kind approach that incorporates intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) recordings and stimulation to personalize the understanding of network behavior in the brain during a depressive state and its response to the DBS device"

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https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/10/depression-treatment.html