A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression

2014/12/12 by Darin D. Dougherty, Ali R. Rezai, Linda L. Carpenter +19 · 554 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Anesthesia #Deep brain stimulation #Depression (economics) #Developmental psychology #Dopamine #Internal capsule #Internal medicine #Magnetic resonance imaging #Major depressive disorder #Medicine #Neurological disorders and treatments #Psychology #Randomized controlled trial #Rating scale #Stimulation #Striatum #Surgery #Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies #Treatment-resistant depression #Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research #Ventral striatum

paper · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.11.023

published in Biological Psychiatry 78(4), 240-248 (Elsevier BV)

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• Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Treatment-Resistant Depression
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• Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Unipolar and Bipolar Depression
• Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report

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