Re: deep brain stimulation in N.Y.Times

Posted by gibber on April 4, 2006, at 18:48:54

In reply to Re: deep brain stimulation in N.Y.Times, posted by honeybee on April 4, 2006, at 8:56:57

This is a great topic. This appears to be more promising than VNS. After digging a little deeper into the study I found an interesting sentence which seems to indicate that for those who responded to DBS, they had brain scans similar to both people who responded to medication and CBT. Sounds like a very thorough treatment.
"The observation that the changes with DBS seen here features both the antidepressant medication and the CBT- induced changes suggests that Cg25WM DBS acts at a critical node of a distributed mood-regulatory network involved in major depression "
Also I'm curious as to why in their follow up study they are excluding atypical depressives. That's me! I'm too young for the study anyway but I wonder if its not as effective for atypicals?
Gibber

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