In the ever-improving world of neuromedicine, psychology and psychiatry, the newest materializing exploratory pursuit is the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) technique that uses implants that hinders tremors experienced by people with Parkinson’s Disease. Forty thousand patients around the world have benefited from these implants. Nowadays, researchers are exploring the possibility of using the same technique in an attempt to cure mental illnesses like obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic depression as well. They are seeing the possibility of these implants to act like an antidepressant for diseases which have severe untreatable manifestations. These brain pace-makers will surely help a lot of people in setting foot once again to normalcy but authorities emphasize that Deep Brain Stimulation using implants is still on its initial experimental state.
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