{"id":104989,"date":"2020-04-08T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-brain-stimulation-experiment-relieved-depression-in-nearly-all-of-its-participants"},"modified":"2020-04-08T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:45:08","slug":"a-brain-stimulation-experiment-relieved-depression-in-nearly-all-of-its-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-brain-stimulation-experiment-relieved-depression-in-nearly-all-of-its-participants","title":{"rendered":"A Brain Stimulation Experiment Relieved Depression in Nearly All of Its Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-stimulation-experiment-relieved-depression-in-nearly-all-of-its-participants3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massaging key parts of the brain with a pulsating magnetic field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/doctors-are-fighting-depression-by-targeting-the-brain-s-wiring-not-its-chemical-balance\">can do wonders<\/a> for some living with chronic depression. For others, it falls well short of promising a life without a debilitating mood disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelmingly positive results of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/348\/bmj.g3434\">unblinded experiment<\/a> on a small group of volunteers suggests some tweaks to the protocol might improve the odds of it working for people who have failed to find a solution elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Stanford and Palo Alto University in the US have shown in an open study on 21 people that administering five times the overall dosage of pulses across a higher number of daily sessions not only seems safe, but could achieve much better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massaging key parts of the brain with a pulsating magnetic field can do wonders for some living with chronic depression. For others, it falls well short of promising a life without a debilitating mood disorder. The overwhelmingly positive results of an unblinded experiment on a small group of volunteers suggests some tweaks to the protocol [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}