{"id":1053358,"date":"2012-04-22T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/battling-depression-with-battery-powered-brains-cnn-report-on-deep-brain-stimulation-dbs.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:50:41","slug":"battling-depression-with-battery-powered-brains-cnn-report-on-deep-brain-stimulation-dbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/battling-depression-with-battery-powered-brains-cnn-report-on-deep-brain-stimulation-dbs.php","title":{"rendered":"Battling depression with &quot;battery-powered brains&quot; &#8211; CNN report on deep brain stimulation (DBS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/14\/health\/battery-powered-brain\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports<\/a>&nbsp;on treating severe depression with electrodes inside the brain:<\/p><p>The procedure -- called deep brain stimulation, or DBS -- targets a small brain structure known as Area 25, the \"ringleader\" for the brain circuits that control our moods. <\/p><p>Area 25 is relatively overactive in depressed patients. One hypothesis is that in patients who do not improve with treatments for depression, Area 25 is somehow stuck in overdrive.<\/p><p>DBS had been used since 1997 as a treatment for movement disorders, including essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and dystonia. <\/p><p>References:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/14\/health\/battery-powered-brain\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treating depression with electrodes inside the brain<\/a>. CNN, 2012.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Area 25 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/battling-depression-with-battery-powered-brains-cnn-report-on-deep-brain-stimulation-dbs.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}