MGH testing brain implants that may help depression and PTSD

Can a tiny chip implanted in the brain help depressive ideas or control dreary? For decades, physicians have been putting little apparatus in people s brains. But doctors have been experimenting with using neurological implants that were similar in patients with mental and cognitive ailments like depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. There s strong interest in using all these kinds of prosthetics that are neurological in returning soldiers who have problems with mental disorders, especially those who might feel suicidal. A recent study says that veterans from wars that are recent show higher suicide risk compared with the overall population. The future of implantable wireless devices which are made to treat neurological diseases is taking shape thanks to a $30 million contract together with the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA at Massachusetts General Hospital. BetaBoston caught up with Emad Eskandar, a neurosurgeon in the hospital s Centre for Nervo
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