Like a pacemaker for the heart, nerve stimulation devices are implanted to send pulses of electricity to evoke activity in nerves throughout the body. These electrical stimulation devices have been used to treat and control ...
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Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders worldwide, estimated to affect about one in eight people worldwide. Once individuals experiencing symptoms of depression approach a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, ...
The ability to imagine is one of the key human cognitive functions. In a paper published in the Scientific Reports journal, researchers from Skoltech and Moscow State University investigated the effect of imagining tactile ...
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A magnetic therapy for persistent depression is in such demand in the Twin Cities that Allina Health has doubled its capacity with the opening of a new mental health center in Fridley, Minnesota.
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Not all patients with depression respond to medication. Two recently published studies provide additional information on how an alternative treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), could be further enhanced. TMS ...
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Humans typically perceive others and themselves as more or less physically attractive, yet the neural underpinnings of these attractiveness-related perceptions remain widely unexplored. While some past studies found that ...
Murdoch University's Center for Healthy Aging is identifying new interventions to treat resting tremor in people with Parkinson's disease.
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Some 30 to 40% of patients do not respond to medications for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but half of them could be helped by a noninvasive in-office procedure.
May 17, 2024
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For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter's team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation. Previous studies indicate ...
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According to a review published in Harvard Review of Psychiatry, certain combinations of medication or psychotherapy in conjunction with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) ...
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