Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the brain
There are a lot of people struggling with mental illnesses like OCD,addiction,anxiety or depression which don’t respond to drugs and are hard to get rid of. But there’s a new,promising method of treating this diseases which involves stimulating the brain with electicity. We often hear ppl joke that their ocd makes them do strange things fe.straighten a crooked picture. But for people living with this disease the reality is anything but funny. A physician and professor at the University of Colorado - Moksha Patel talks about how OCD had taken over his life. After years of fighting with this sickness he decided to get in touch with a psychiatrist and researcher-Rachel Davis who said that he would be the perfect candidate for deep brain stimulation as a cure for his ocd. Davis explains that deep brain stimulation involves the implantation of electrodes in the deeper areas of the brain.Basically they’re looking to find the settings where the patient feels that their mood is improving,...