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Re: Trileptal is pooping-out on me.

Posted by SLS on July 2, 2005, at 7:15:51

In reply to Re: Trileptal is pooping-out on me., posted by 4WD on July 1, 2005, at 21:23:34

> >
> > I failed to see the logic in the DBS though. If the subgenual cingulate is overactive in depression, what good is done by electrically stimulating it ???
>
> Shock it into a normal rhythm, like a defibrillator for a heart that has stopped beating normally and is quivering instead?
>
>

I think the idea is to actually turn the area "off" by blocking normal neural activity, perhaps by keeping the area in a constant state of depolarization by applying voltage. I guess I should look it up.


- Scott

 

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