{"id":162653,"date":"2023-04-22T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-deep-brain-stimulation-is-helping-people-with-severe-depression"},"modified":"2023-04-22T22:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T03:23:34","slug":"how-deep-brain-stimulation-is-helping-people-with-severe-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-deep-brain-stimulation-is-helping-people-with-severe-depression","title":{"rendered":"How deep brain stimulation is helping people with severe depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-deep-brain-stimulation-is-helping-people-with-severe-depression3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an experimental treatment strategy which uses an implanted device to help patients with severe depression who have reached a point where no other treatment works.<\/p>\n<p>But despite her involvement in the DBS collaboration, which involves neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, electrophysiologists, engineers and computer scientists, neurologist Helen Mayberg does not see it as a long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope I live long enough to see that people won\u2019t require a hole in their brain and a device implanted in this way,\u201d she says. \u201cI often have a nightmare with my tombstone that kind of reads like, what did she think she was doing?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an experimental treatment strategy which uses an implanted device to help patients with severe depression who have reached a point where no other treatment works. But despite her involvement in the DBS collaboration, which involves neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, electrophysiologists, engineers and computer scientists, neurologist Helen Mayberg does not see it as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162653","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=162653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}