A procedure that treats depression by using electrodes implanted deep in the brain won’t be available to the public soon, says the researcher who pioneered the procedure more than a decade ago with a team at the University of Toronto.Neurologist Dr. Helen Mayberg, now at Emory University in Atlanta, said in Vancouver Tuesday that 80 per cent of her recent patients find sustained relief from severe depression after fine wires are surgically implanted to deliver electrical current to a specific part of the brain.
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