From the ancient Egyptians' use of electric fish to treat headaches to the invention of pacemakers to regulate heart rhythms ...

The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression ... as has long been the process with deep brain stimulation.

run from the brain through the neck to the internal organs (Getty via WashU Medicine) This type of vagus nerve stimulation device was approved for treatment-resistant depression nearly two decades ...

Stimulating either of a pair of crucial nerves that carry messages from the brain to several major organs could be an effective way to treat people with severe depression ... which participants who ...

among patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), according to two studies published online Dec. 18 in Brain Stimulation. Charles R. Conway, M.D., from Washington University in St. Louis ...

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Family and friends have rallied together in efforts to raise fund to support a Peterborough teenager who has been through a kidney transplant as well as brain surgery in the last 18 months.

Transcranial Electrical Stimulation ... searched four main electronic databases to identify studies until February 2020. Forty studies were selected including 511 healthy participants and 452 patients ...

Brain monitoring is getting more personal. Scientists recently published a study in Cell Biomaterials showcasing an electronic tattoo ... other internal organs for stimulation, rehabilitation ...

Depression is a debilitating condition ... Unlike medications that affect the entire brain, VNS delivers focused stimulation to mood-regulating brain regions and can also be used alongside other ...

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