Brain Stimulation Gives New Hope For Treating Psychiatric Disorders. Addiction, OCD, PTSD and depression: All of these conditions might be improved by stimulating one deep brain structure.
Deep brain stimulation is the bleeding edge of mental health treatment. Originally developed to treat the terrible tremors that patients with Parkinson’s disease suffer from, many researchers now view it as a potentially revolutionary method of treating mental illness.
BRAIN-ALTERING SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW NORMAL - An electrical implant known as a deep-brain stimulator is giving some patients a new start.
AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people.
Researchers funded by the US military are developing appliances to record neural activity and automatically stimulate the brain to treat mental illness.