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The Final Cure For Depression?
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Tue Mar 1, 2005 @ 3:47pm |
 Coolness: 151405 | 'Brain pacemaker' may help worst cases of depression: study
Last Updated Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:00:07 EST CBC News TORONTO - Deep electrical stimulation of the brain may help alleviate severe, chronic depression in patients who don't respond to other treatments, researchers in Ontario have found. To test an experimental surgery, doctors placed a device in the brains of six people who had all been treated for depression with drugs and talk therapy, and in some cases, electroshock therapy. Scientists stimulate the brain's sadness centre. None of the conventional treatments worked for them. When neurosurgeons applied an electrical stimulation to the implanted electrodes, four of the six patients showed remarkable improvement in mood and sleep, the study's authors reported in the journal Neuron. The researchers hypothesized that by targeting an area of the brain's sadness centre, they could treat depression. The sadness centre, called Cg25, is thought to play a critical role in sadness and mood. People with depression may have too much activity in the part of the brain, scientists speculate. "We thought that one strategy might be to go in and try to turn down the activity in these areas and to see whether that would have any benefit," said Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital. The improvements were immediate and lasted beyond the six months of the trial. One patient, Jean Harris, said she now thinks she might be able to return to work. Dr. Andres Lozano. The results of the experiment need to be repeated in more patients to make sure the effect wasn't a fluke. Other questions still need answers. "Who will it be good for, who will it not?" asked Dr. Claire O'Donovan, a psychiatrist and director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. "How long will it take before it has any clinical impact?" Since surgery always carries risks, psychiatrists say deep brain stimulation will likely only be an option for the most serious cases of depression. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Psy_co replied on Fri Mar 4, 2005 @ 12:16am |
 Coolness: 489545 | how much does it cost |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Mar 4, 2005 @ 7:24am |
 Coolness: 340610 | this is a 'cure' for people with severed depression and is rated as being something even after electro-shock therapy.. :| |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Psy_co replied on Fri Mar 4, 2005 @ 2:44pm |
| Coolness: 489545 | theres alwalays a price tag... always |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Fri Mar 4, 2005 @ 6:22pm |
 Coolness: 202170 | yeah those are people who need to be restrained because they will try and kill themselves with whatever they find |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Sun Mar 6, 2005 @ 3:27pm |
 Coolness: 69920 | stupid thing i ever read |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 7:57am |
 Coolness: 57145 | simulating happiness by stimulating brain centers with electricity is much more financially rewarding I supposed than getting people to change planet earth so that it is a happier place to live--atleast in the short term. planet earth is in constant state of war thus not very happy place to be -- people dying over poor plannning and greed everyday-- |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 7:36pm |
| Coolness: 151405 | ...
Well even though this world is a shit hole according to Cinderella Soul, And this article -or idea, is the dumbest thing Dino has ever read. I'm glad doctors and scientist are trying their best to help. I myself suffer from (severe) depression, so when I read this I was automatically attracted to the idea. Even though the device itself may resmeble to some type of Electro-shock/Quasi-Mind control mechanism. If it helps those who can't live their lives due to depression. I encourage this. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 8:43pm |
| Coolness: 202170 | yeah something like this could give me the confidence I need to gun down a lot of people and feel no remorse! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 9:01pm |
| Coolness: 340610 | ahem, if you're someone who lacks confidence, joining the NRA and buying a machine gun will clear that up in a flash.
why do you think so many fat ugly idiots own guns.. ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 9:26pm |
 Coolness: 146145 | this scares the hell out of me |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 9:30pm |
| Coolness: 202170 | neoform: It's to protect from british invasion, of course. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 21, 2005 @ 10:07pm |
| Coolness: 340610 | HEY! how would YOU like it if the king of england just marched right up to you and started blowing smoke in your stupid face? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Fri Apr 22, 2005 @ 8:10am |
| Coolness: 57145 | Dont get me wrong, I see the benefits. Like some suggested.. even guns, and kings come with benefits. Lots of things have benefits but that doesn't necessarily make them "good".
We have a tendancy to look at the value of something in terms of what it can do for us and others like us in the here and now. Sometimes, we don't look at how a thing can impact us in a global way.... in the long term. We always want a quick fix, to soulage the pain-- to make us more comfortable. It's not always that which produces the least amount of pain that is the most good. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Fri Apr 22, 2005 @ 11:41am |
 Coolness: 53375 | thats really interesting...
im sure right now since its new the side affects can be really bad, and that there is no certainty of what can happen. but still, that is great that doctors are working on this; It could possibly work out alot better than most medication. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Sun Apr 24, 2005 @ 9:28am |
| Coolness: 57145 | tylenol can take away my headache. But it doesn't stop headaches on a whole from happening. Tylenol supresses fever and fever is a way that the body heals itself.
It will never be a cure--only a treatment. |
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