By Nic Fleming,
The Telegraph
A pacemaker-style implant shown in early trials to relieve the symptoms of severe depression could be available to treat British patients by next year.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already in use for Parkinson's disease sufferers, is reported to have had immediate and dramatic effects on most of the handful of Canadian patients on whom the technique has been tested.
The technique uses electrical pulses, sent via implanted electrodes, to jam neural wiring circuits in a part of the brain linked to depression in patients for whom anti-depressants or electro-convulsive therapy have failed.
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