{"id":136786,"date":"2022-03-13T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/effective-new-target-for-mood-boosting-brain-stimulation-found"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:05:01","slug":"effective-new-target-for-mood-boosting-brain-stimulation-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/effective-new-target-for-mood-boosting-brain-stimulation-found","title":{"rendered":"Effective new target for mood-boosting brain stimulation found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/effective-new-target-for-mood-boosting-brain-stimulation-found3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found an effective target in the brain for electrical stimulation to improve mood in people suffering from depression. As reported in the journal <i>Current Biology<\/i> on November 29, stimulation of a brain region called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reliably produced acute improvement in mood in patients who suffered from depression at the start of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Those effects were not seen in patients without <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mood<\/a> symptoms, suggesting that the brain stimulation works to normalize activity in mood-related neural circuitry, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStimulation induced a pattern of activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+regions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain regions<\/a> connected to OFC that was similar to patterns seen when patients naturally experienced positive mood states,\u201d says Vikram Rao, of the University of California, San Francisco. \u201cOur findings suggest that OFC is a promising new stimulation target for treatment of mood disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found an effective target in the brain for electrical stimulation to improve mood in people suffering from depression. As reported in the journal Current Biology on November 29, stimulation of a brain region called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reliably produced acute improvement in mood in patients who suffered from depression at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136786","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}