Tuning Depression Circuits Using Deep Brain Stimulation

Air date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 3:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Description: Critical to development of deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a novel therapy for treatment resistant depression has been the evolving characterization of brain systems mediating normal and abnormal mood states as well as those mediating successful and unsuccessful response to various antidepressant interventions. Building on converging functional neuroimaging evidence implicating the subcallosal cingulate as a critical node within this depression network, we targeted this region adapting neuromodulation techniques routinely used to treat Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. The theoretical and data-driven foundation for piloting this new procedure as well as long-term clinical and imaging findings from ongoing experimental studies will be presented.

The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide.
Author: Dr. Helen Mayberg
Runtime: 01:08:15
Permanent link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?15724

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• wals021710

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I don`t understand your meaning of covering up symptoms and not fixing them and the other comment on words and not feeling them I don`t understand either, please enlighten me?

[emace3]

why do we like to cover up symptoms and not fix them

[emace3]

i hear words but i dont feel them!