Electrical stimulation improves depression in trial

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 13:35 in Health & Medicine

Study shows 12 of 20 patients with chronic major depression were helped after receiving stimulation in a part of the brain believed to regulate sadness. People with otherwise untreatable depression improved in a small clinical trial after receiving electrical stimulation of a part of the brain that scientists believe regulates sadness.

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