Scientists test brain pacemakers for depression

May 26th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Other
Scientists test brain pacemakers for depression (AP)

Graphic explains how depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder are treated with electrodes in the brain

(AP) -- It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires. Scientists already know the power of these devices to block the tremors of Parkinson's disease and related illnesses; more than 40,000 such patients worldwide have the implants.

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