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VNS hasn't reached to more depression patients

Pratyush — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:16:22 +0000

A new pocket-watch-sized device that is also called as ‘a pacemaker for the brain’ is developed to provide better treatment to the patients of depression. FDA has been approved it eight months before and since then more than 550...

VNS Therapy okayed to treat depression

Pratyush — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:59:14 +0000

Bipolar disorder or manic depression patients, most of the times, find medications that simply do not work. They are treatment-resistant. The vagus nerve stimulator has proved as a better treatment device for maniac depression. A patient,...

VNS therapy reduces depression

Pratyush — Fri, 26 May 2006 06:29:23 +0000

Huston based Cyberonics has reported about positive trial results regarding the development of an anti depression device. It is called as the VNS Therapy System. The device works by stimulating the vagus nerve. It delivers intermittent electrical...

A Pacemaker for the Brain!

Irani — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:27:25 +0000

Rightly billed as “a pacemaker for the brain,” the pocket watch sized device is the newest cutting-edge treatment for as many as 4 million adults who failed to get relieved from severe depression by psychotherapy, drugs or even shock...