Recently I found a hands on experience blog for someone undergoing deep brain stimulation for parkinson’s disease. Now another blogger who blogs about the participation in a trial: 278-005 DBS Trial. This trial is done in St. Jude’s. It’s the DBS study for TRD (treatment resistant depression). Surgery is scheduled for next week.
The trial is a blind study – which means I won’t know if the gizmo they give me is turned on or not. At least for 6 months I won’t know. from what I understand 2 out of 3 of the gizmos implanted will be turned on. The other 1/3 won’t be turned on for 6 months and NONE of us will know which one we are.
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See the interesting roundtable discussion with Charlie Rose (moderator) and scientists in this field, including Helen Mayberg (Emory Univ.) who has published several studies regarding fMRI and DBS for depression. This is a very interesting and informative series — find it at: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11078?sponsor_id=1.