Brain implants that deliver electric pulses can ease depression in people who aren't responding to psychiatric drugs, a new study says.

Half of patients with anxiety and depression have been successfully treated using deep-brain stimulation. More than a third (34.6%) saw a "near-complete" elimination of their symptoms, according to a ...

A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — There’s potential new hope for patients dealing with treatment-resistant depression. Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, targets the region in the brain that is overactivated in ...

Abbott has launched a pivotal clinical trial to see if its deep-brain stimulation approach can make headway against treatment-resistant depression. The company previously collected green lights for ...

Northwell Health is conducting a clinical trial to address treatment-resistant depression using similar technology used to treat neurological diseases like Parkinson’s in an effort to seek options for ...

Last year, we wrote about a technology called tDCS-- transcranial direct current stimulation -- that improves your mental acuity by passing a small electrical current through your brain. The US Army ...

At a Friday lecture, Helen Mayberg, a professor of neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, spoke about her pioneering work in deep brain ...

Tiny electronic chips that can be threaded into the brain through a needle instead of a scalpel are moving from speculative ...

The U.S. FDA granted Abbott Breakthrough Device designation to explore deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) as an option to improve the lives of people with this ...