Posted by Bob on December 16, 2011, at 17:57:58
In reply to Re: Effexor 450 mg? » SLS, posted by Phidippus on December 16, 2011, at 17:48:19
> Vagal Nerve Stimulation may be more efficacious for the treatment of depression than DBS. You are concious during the procedure and as they tune the device, improvements can be felt. (this goes for both proceddures).
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> Eric
Eric,I have the DBS implant and was involved in the St. Jude Medical BROADEN study at Columbia University. Patients are not conscious any longer when the implantation is performed. They did it that way during the initial investigative phase as I understand, but eventually stopped, ostensibly because there was no discernible correlation between those that reported a sudden antidepressant effect in surgery and those that went on to be "responders" to the device stimulation long term.
There is a competing group of studies headed by the Medtronic and the Cleveland Clinic I believe which targets a different area of the brain. Possibly patients are awake during that procedure, but I don't know.
Bob
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