North American first: Researchers investigate safety of focused ultrasound to treat depression

For the first time in North America, researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre are investigating the safety and effectiveness of using MRI-guided focused ultrasound to help patients with treatment-resistant major depression.
Learn more at sunnybrook.ca/fus/depression

[@squamish4244]

Incredible. Just incredible! I have serious, nearly crippling OCD and this could change my life.

[@AyushKumar2may]

What is the status now

[@PuthenveetilRajgopalMenon]

Om Datta Guru

[@asphaltandtacos]

I am claustrophobic so this is a no go.

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Om Dattatreya Namo Namah

[@Devo1987]

This is a Advance form of Lobotomy / Temporal Hippocampal Lesion I believe

[@zorintoto1167]

It's not any form of lobotomy it's a capsulotomy

[@squamish4244]

Only in the strictest sense. The portion of brain tissue destroyed is miniscule, and the site is carefully chosen in order to break a cycle of looping thoughts and emotions.
Many other clinics, including one at a different hospital in the same city, are developing ultrasound techniques that don't involve the destruction of brain tissue but a 'winding down' of neuronal activity through the repeated targeting of a specific area at an intensity too low to cause any damage.