All posts tagged 'FDA approvals'

FDA approves brain-zapping device to relieve OCD

Posted on February 19th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 2/19/2009 By MATTHEW PERRONEAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Patients suffering from obsessive, distressing thoughts have a new treatment option: a pacemaker-like device that relieves anxiety with electrical jolts to the brain. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Medtronic’s Reclaim Deep Brain Stimulator device as the first..
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Magnet device aims to treat depression patients

Posted on October 21st, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 10/20/2008 5:05 PM By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science-fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain..
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