Friday, March 04, 2016

Did they turn on depression, or turn off happiness?

Amy Ellis Nutt writes in the Washington Post about
A treatment for Parkinson’s disease reveals a brain switch for sadness.

The patient’s facial expressions revealed her roller-coast of emotions as an electrical pulse fired into her brain triggered symptoms of depression. When the electrical pulse was turned off, her despair subsided. (The New England Journal of Medicine ©1999)
Read more here.

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