-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Brain Implant For Mood Control Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:54 AM In the near future, when the Surgeon General says that 50% of the population should be subjected to psychiatric treatment, it may mean they should have a brain implant: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991215/aponline170656_000.htm Brain Device May Fight Depression By Lauran Neergaard AP Medical Writer Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1999; 5:06 p.m. EST WASHINGTON -- The first small study where doctors implanted a pacemaker-like device in the brain helped lift the moods of about 40 percent of severely depressed patients, doctors reported Wednesday. The 30-patient pilot study does not prove this unusual brain-stimulating treatment really helps depression, researchers cautioned. But sufferers of severe depression have clamored to try the experimental treatment since The Associated Press disclosed the preliminary research in October. The pacemaker's manufacturer, Cyberonics Inc., received several hundred phone calls from patients. Researchers reported Wednesday on an Internet version of the medical journal Biological Psychiatry that this "vagus nerve stimulation" seemed to help 40 percent of study participants. Joyce Daniels of Charleston, S.C., suffered severe depression for the past five years. Medications and even electric shock therapy failed. "Sometimes I'd cry for a week. ... I got to a place where I'd just sit on the end of the couch all day long," she said. She had the experimental brain stimulator implanted in March, and says she gradually began improving. "It's not like you put it in and wake up the next day and feel the whole world's changed," Daniels said. But around October, she says she felt largely recovered. "The last five years I was walking through this fog, where there's nothing really clear to me in my mind, and all of a sudden I got up one morning - my mind has cleared up." The stimulator is essentially a brain pacemaker. A generator the size of a pocket watch is implanted into the chest. Wires snake up the neck to the vagus nerve, which runs from the neck into a brain region thought important for regulating mood. Every few minutes, the stimulating sends tiny electric shocks to that nerve and thus on to the brain. The stimulator already is sold as a treatment for epilepsy. For depression, it is "extremely encouraging as a potential treatment," but more study is needed to prove the effect, said the lead investigator, Dr. John Rush of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Several study participants took antidepressants along with the brain stimulator, and it is possible the implant somehow helps medicine work better, said co-researcher Dr. Lauren Marangell of the Baylor College of Medicine. A 200-patient study scheduled to begin next summer will offer a better test. Doctors are debating implanting all the patients with a stimulator, but not immediately turning on all the implants, hoping to prove any relief is not just a placebo effect. During the 30-second zaps, the implant can cause temporary hoarseness in about 30 percent to 40 percent of patients. Rush said few were bothered by the little voice breaks, but said one patient who sang in her church choir did turn off the stimulator while singing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991215/aponline170656_000.ht m ------------------------------------------------------------ GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm ____________________________________________________________ Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists & E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, & resources. 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