Despite decades of advances in mental health care, depression remains one of the world's most disabling conditions. Many ...

(TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay/Canva) Major depressive disorder is the most common mental health issue in the world, affecting ...

Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. The medical benefits of mild electrical stimulation of the cranium may seem like hocus pocus medicine, but several decades of ...

A more precise and personalized form of electric brain stimulation may be a more effective and faster treatment for people with moderate to major depression compared to other similar treatments, ...

A new type of noninvasive brain stimulation may help people with moderate to severe depression feel better faster than standard treatments, researchers in a new report say. The method, called ...

Brain implants that deliver electric pulses can ease depression in people who aren't responding to psychiatric drugs, a new study says. Half of a small group of people who received brain implants ...

Key Takeaways Brain imaging could help doctors use magnetic stimulation to better treat depressionBrain imaging helps find specific targets for stimulationPeople treated using brain imaging had lower ...

A device that delivers direct stimulation to the brain was found to be a safe and effective means of treating depression at home, according to a new study. A device that delivers direct stimulation to ...

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label ...

In the sixth episode of The Deep End, we’ll look to the future for Jon and his family and for DBS research. The research is pushing ahead, with a clinical trial of DBS for treatment-resistant ...

As the surgeon general has stated, we are in a mental health crisis. Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. And a major challenge is that depression can be difficult to treat, ...

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 ...