http://www.everydayhealth.com/health-report/major-depression-resource-center/sanjay-gupta-targeting-depression-deep-inside-brain.aspx?xid=aol_eh-emo_9_20141110_&aolcat=hlt&icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl19|sec1_lnk3&plid=561818
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"Helen Mayberg, MD, a researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, takes the patients no one else can help. The severely depressed people who enroll in her trials have not responded to medication, to talk therapy, or even to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in which voltage is applied to the temples of a sedated patient to induce a seizure.
She is achieving astonishing results: 75% of her patients get better and stay better.
Dr. Mayberg is achieving these results by permanently implanting electrodes deep inside the brain. The electrodes are powered by a battery pack implanted under the skin below the collarbone. . . ."
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