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VNS hasn't reached to more depression patients

Pratyush | Jun 28 2006

A new pocket-watch-sized device that is also called as 'a pacemaker for the brain' is developed to provide better treatment to the patients of depression. FDA has been approved it eight months before and since then more than 550 Americans have...

Tags: Depression, Vagus Nerve Stinulator, VNS, FDA, Cyberonics, Electric Pulses, Serotonin, Health & Fitness

VNS Therapy okayed to treat depression

Pratyush | Jun 21 2006

Bipolar disorder or manic depression patients, most of the times, find medications that simply do not work. They are treatment-resistant. The vagus nerve stimulator has proved as a better treatment device for maniac depression. A patient, Lauri...

Tags: Bipolar Disorders, Maniac Depression, Vagus Nerve Stimulator, VNS, Lauri Ticas, Epilepsy, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Cyberonics, Health & Fitness

Vagus Nerve Stimulators may reduce depression

Pratyush | May 31 2006

If no treatment is helpful to fight depression, a brain implant may help. But it can take long duration to show the benefits of the implant. According to the researchers of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the vagus nerve...

Tags: Vagus Nerve Stimulators, VNS, Brain Implant, Depression, Washington University School of Medicine, FDA, Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT, Health & Fitness

New Depression Treatment Needs Insurance: Advocate

Irani | Feb 18 2006

It was since 1997, epilepsy is being successfully treated with the help of a pacemaker-type device -- Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy, or VNS. But, VNS could also treat people who suffer from clinical depression, a study by the Food and Drug...