Participants in clinic trial went from being unable to get out of bed to being productive and interacting with loved ones ...
The participants were implanted with a pacemaker-like device, under the skin in the chest that stimulated their left vagus ...
Vagus nerves, in orange, run from the brain through the neck to the internal organs (Getty via WashU Medicine) This type of vagus nerve stimulation device was approved for treatment-resistant ...
An international team of researchers conducted a clinical trial on 493 adults whose major depression hadn't previously ...
Vagus nerve stimulation shows a positive treatment effect and improved quality of life among patients with treatment-resistant depression.
In a remarkable feat, the team of senior neuroscientists at Narayana Medical College, Nellore, led by Dr NS Sampath Kumar, ...