New brain stimulation treatment may offer hope for those with treatment resistant depression
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
October 13, 2009 Charleston, S.C.--A new neurosurgical procedure may prove helpful for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Bilateral epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation (EpCS) was found generally safe and provided significant improvement of depressive symptoms in a small group of patients, according to lead researcher Ziad Nahas, M.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina.