Trying brain pacemakers to zap psychiatric disease
From: Medical Design Technology - 02/21/2011
By: Lauran Neergaard

Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, has proved a powerful way to block the
tremors of Parkinson's disease. Blocking mental illness isn't nearly as easy
a task. 

But a push is on to expand research into how well these brain stimulators
tackle the most severe cases of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder,
and Tourette's syndrome - to know best how to use them before too many
doctors and patients clamor to try. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/News/FeedsAP/2011/02/trying-brain-pacemakers-to-zap-psychiatric-disease/

Links:
Michael Okun
http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/ufmdc-team/michael-s-okun-md

Helen Mayberg
http://neurology.emory.edu/Faculty/Mayberg.htm

Benjamin Greenberg
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/professional/0,2356,105091,00.html