management of depression
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Depressed People Are Hotter. Scientists Want to Try Cooling Them Down
Our body temperature may be inextricably tied to our mental health, research out this week suggests. A team of scientists has found evidence that higher body temp is associated with having clinical depression. While there are many unresolved questions about this link, the researchers have already begun to conduct human trials to confirm and further…
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In a First, Scientists Used Personalised Brain Stimulation to Successfully Treat a Person’s Severe Depression
For some people with difficult-to-treat depression, a personalised, implanted device for the brain might provide relief when nothing else can, a new case study published Monday suggests. Researchers claim, for the first time, to have used custom-fitted deep brain stimulation to substantially alleviate a patient’s decades-long bout with severe depression. Though there are many questions…