Brain stimulation improves depression symptoms, restores brain waves in clinical study

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 14:40 in Health & Medicine

With a weak alternating electrical current sent through electrodes attached to the scalp, UNC School of Medicine researchers successfully targeted a naturally occurring electrical pattern in a specific part of the brain and markedly improved depression symptoms in about 70 percent of participants in a clinical study. The research, published in Translational Psychiatry, lays the […]

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