{"id":238363,"date":"2026-06-04T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/experimental-brain-pacemakers-may-rewire-circuits-linked-to-depression"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:03:15","slug":"experimental-brain-pacemakers-may-rewire-circuits-linked-to-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/experimental-brain-pacemakers-may-rewire-circuits-linked-to-depression","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Brain \u2018Pacemakers\u2019 May Rewire Circuits Linked to Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-brain-pacemakers-may-rewire-circuits-linked-to-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with treatment-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/depression\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for solutions, some brave patients are now volunteering to undergo surgery to place experimental \u2018pacemakers\u2019 into their brains.<\/p>\n<p>These implanted electrodes are part of a treatment known as deep brain stimulation, which is currently used to address some cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/smart-brain-implants-can-now-adapt-to-optimize-parkinsons-treatment\">Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a> and epilepsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Desperate for solutions, some brave patients are now volunteering to undergo surgery to place experimental \u2018pacemakers\u2019 into their brains. These implanted electrodes are part of a treatment known as deep brain stimulation, which is currently used to address some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238363","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\/238363","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}