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Pilot Study Finds Deep Brain Stimulation Eases Depression

A recently published multi-center pilot study supports use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for major depressive disorder for people who have not responded to more traditional modes of treatment. The study, conducted at three research f [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression affects brain's 'hate circuit'

Researchers in Britain and China, using brain imaging, found depression frequently seems to uncouple the brain's so-called hate circuit. Jianfeng Feng of the University of Warwick and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Suicide Brain May Hold Key to Depression

A study that compared the brains of suicide victims to those of people who died suddenly from other causes found key differences in specific brain cells in the white matter of the brain. The finding lends support to the idea that inflamma [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression causes brain damage

Taipei - Taiwan doctors have found that depression can cause brain damage, so it is necessary for patients to take medication to repair the damage and cure their depression. Doctors at the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital carried out the [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Depressed Moms' Brains Show Muted Response to Babies' Cries

Mothers with major depression show reduced neural activation in response to the cries of their babies compared with nondepressed mothers, according to a new study published online in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. &quo [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Brain pacemaker could treat severe cases of depression

The pacemaker treatment is actually a type of deep brain stimulation that the researchers say could be structured to treat patients with the most severe forms of depression. The treatment involves placing a pacemaker type device und [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Brain mechanism for postpartum depression identified

Researchers from University of California at Los Angeles have uncovered a brain mechanism that may be responsible for postpartum depression in women. The team has identified a suspect protein in mice that may promote depression-like beha [...]

Posted On : May, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Depressed people less receptive to feel good chemicals in br...

A new study at the University of Michigan Depression Center has shown that some people suffering from depression have fewer receptors for some of the brain’s ‘feel good’ stress-response chemicals, which could explain why s [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Brain stimulation can treat major depression

Electrical stimulation of a particular brain region is reported to be an effective cure for major depression non-responsive to other treatments. Major depression is a serious medical illness and the leading cause of disability in many [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Brain differences mark those with depression risk

People, who have a high family risk of developing depression, had less brain matter on the right side of their brains on par with losses seen in Alzheimer’s disease, US researchers said. Brain scans showed a 28 percent thinning in the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Study Links Depression to Thinning of Brains Cortex

Scientists who have been following families with a history of depression have found structural differences in family members’ brains — specifically, a significant thinning of the right cortex, the brain’s outermost surfa [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Brain Images Reveal Effects Of Anti-Depressants

When one is depressed he/she cannot understand or comprehend anything that is said to that person the reason being that he/she is so depressed that nothing feels like to be done by this particular person the only thing needed by this [...]

Posted On : Feb, 29 2008 | Comments : 1

New Treatment Can Clear Brain Clots

Medical science is doing wonders day by day now there is hope for people who have clots in their brains and are on a critical stage altogether but there is treatment for such patients and cure is possible too. It's a tiny vacuu [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Magnetic pulses to brain can treat depression: study

Stimulating the brain with rapid bursts of magnetic energy is a safe and effectively treatment for major depression, a new large-scale study has found. The finding offers a ray of hope to the 20 to 40 percent of patients who do not respon [...]