I am looking for information how to get my family member into the deep brain stimulator study for the serverlly depressed.
Medical research... How can I find out where a study is being performed?
Open the research pages of the very many research programs going on in the neurology departments across the States.....You will find several
One University that is carrying out surgical procedures in intractable depression, is the Health Science Center in Houston Texas (Texas University)....whose teaching Hospital (My own), is the Hermanns Memorial,,,..Just to mention one example...
However, deep stimulation of the anterior internal capsula is almost abandoned, and replaced by the procedure called anterior capsulolysis (some fibers that close the circuit of the intractable depresion are coagulated by calculated temperature, controlled by a small computer)
The pacemaker for deep brain stimulation has been abandoned in most centers, because is more expensive, and inefficient in the long run---
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