Long Term Effects Of Depression On Brain
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Cyberonic's Vagus Nerve Stimulation device for treatment-resistant depression, the agency asked the company to do a long-term study of the device's effectiveness once it went on the market. Now, in a new study, company researchers found that 32 percent to 42 percent of patients treated with the device showed a reduction in their depression symptoms after 50 weeks.
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