If you want to cure an illness, you try to understand its underlying cause or causes, as a precondition for modifying, reducing, or eliminating them. That, in highly simplified terms, is one of the…
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A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single…
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Researchers have reported that the brain circuitry underlying depression is the same or similar in a wide variety of patients and circumstances, and that it is similar to circuitry affected when…
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Investigators are reporting progress in research aiming to determine if deep-brain stimulation (DBS) can be used to help alleviate certain symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Their results…
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A new long-term follow-up study of 28 people whose serious, treatment-resistant major depression was treated surgically with deep-brain stimulation (DBS) has found that “most of the patients…
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