Breaking the Depression Circuit: Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope

HER RELAPSE INTO DEPRESSION FELT LIKE DEFEAT—but it offered vital clues to achieving lasting psychiatric relief. The 67-year-old woman from Alabama had already endured four major depressive episodes in her decades-long battle with mental illness. After exhausting numerous medications and other therapies, in 2015 she turned to an experimentallast resort: deep brain stimulation, or DBS.