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Electroconvulsive therapy often evokes inaccurate images of seizing bodies and smoking ears. Better understanding of how it reduces depression symptoms can illuminate new ways to treat mental illness.

The risk factors that influence the development of freezing of gait or FOG.

Five people who had life-altering, seemingly irreversible cognitive deficits following moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries showed substantial improvements in their cognition and quality of life after receiving an experimental form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a phase 1 clinical trial.

In a first-in-humans trial, deep brain stimulation restored executive function in five individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury 3-18 years after injury.

The safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation.

DBS in psychiatry: What challenges stand between this treatment and success? Alik Widge, MD, PhD, shares more at the ACNP 2023 Annual meeting.

Joy N. found purpose and fulfillment by enrolling in Community Education courses at the Harper College Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) after her husband passed away.

By making slight modifications to an already approved brain stimulation technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers have reported profound improvement in patients with hard-to-treat depression.

Joy N. and her husband were married for 24 years before he passed away. It was a life filled with work, family and travel, the very basics of order and stability.

Using machine learning, researchers are able to use data from the brain to glean deeper insights and apply this new knowledge in clinical settings.