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Hope this makes a tumor destruction surgery not so invasive. But destroying parts of the brain just for depression sounds a bit overboard

You get an ultrasound lobotomy, and you get an ultrasound lobotomy.

Everybody gets ultrasound lobotomies!

Depression is no "just". It robs you of being present in your own life and often literally kills you.

They tried this once.

Rosemary Kennedy should be a household name.

Depression epidemic is a relatively new phenomenon introduced by modern society. maybe we should rethink society instead of altering our brain to fit into a broken system.

Depression is not "new".

It existed for as long as humanity, people were just sent to insane asylums or the local priest.

didn't say depression is... i said 'depression epidemic'.

A surgery that does not "produce any blood." Congratulations, this achievement goes to: every surgery!

I agree with you. Even in recent decades when aspect of society weren’t very different depression levels were lower than today. It’s a massive conglomeration of things that is really difficult to point to any one aspect. One thing I think about in relation to the rise of mental disorders is all of the environmental pollutants from chemical usage in a variety of products. There’s so many dangerous pollutants we know of, but yet still many more we don’t have a great understanding of but still pump out in high quantities. But, trying to change society is difficult and this could help many people.

Lack of reading comprehension or do you not understand how a Scalpel works?

Definitely, in the long-term, but in the mean time loads of people are suffering right now. It doesn't make sense to let real people right now suffer and die in the name of fighting for a better system.

They're different types of focused ultrasound! Or rather, involve different parameters/protocols.

High-intensity ultrasound is what is being used for neurosurgery. Low-intensity ultrasound is what's being used for treating disorders like depression.

Low-intensity ultrasound doesn't destroy any part of the brain. It merely inhibits them temporarily. This is more similar to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which is currently being used to treat depression, or to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) which also shows promise.

The benefit of ultrasound is that it can target much deeper sites in the brain and with higher precision than TMS, which leads to new possible treatments. This is all still in the very early stages though.

to be fair they tried it before that and after that and in fact you gotta wonder why they kept trying after the first victim

Ive been proselytizing the use of sound/waves in medical treatment for years. It is the future.

I’m sure when we lived as hunter gatherers that depression was just as rampant lol

I was aware of the magnetic treatments, was not aware that this would be similar, article makes it read like it would rely on destruction, so I am glad that this is different. I will have to rely on studies for long term exposure to less than destructive amplitudes, but ultrasonics do weird things to liquids

It sure made them stop saying how sad they were

That sounds like a lobotomy with new technology

From my own experience with my dad on this topic, comments like this rile me. You can suck it sir.

Surgery doesn't /produce/ blood.

Edit to say: don't be human trash

Yeah the article does seem confusing at best

On an alt or are there two people learning today that humans bleed when you cut them? Even when a doctor does it. Its magical i know.

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No, surgery does not manufacture blood.

A finger poke will produce blood.

I know this is crazy, but sometimes words can mean two things.

Here’s a Ted talk that explains it and shows results from the treatment. I tried to get my father in a clinical trial for this procedure for his sarcoma but it didn’t have any openings. https://youtu.be/P4FOuOPyUOY

The finger poke is not causing blood to exist, it is causing bleeding to exist.

Here you are, using the English language, and yet you still think this is a logical hill to die on.

Go outside tomorrow when the sun is out, it’s good for your health.

A personal attack. Brilliant.

See, here, “brilliant” could mean a couple of things:

A. You legitimately think I am brilliant, or that my statement was brilliant.

B. You are using thinly veiled sarcasm.

C. You view personal attacks as brilliant.

Multiple sentiments, all in the same nine letters. Now, like this, some words can have multiple definitions. For example, if I use the word unnecessary, it could mean:

A. I feel as though your pedantry is unnecessary

B. I feel as though this conversation is unnecessary.

C. I feel as though your access to technology is unnecessary.

It’s really neither of these things. The definition I would like to convey is: Continuing to entertain such a mediocre attempt at being an unnecessary specimen on Reddit would be unnecessary.

That’s a lot, I know.

If you need any help slogging through such an immense concept, please do let someone know.

And honestly, if you take sound health advice from strangers on the internet as a personal attack, there could be a far many things to sort out within yourself before you start to worry about requisite vitamin d intake.

Or, maybe that’s the problem?

Again, I suggest you go outside tomorrow, it’s good for your physical and mental health.

Medical advances like this are so interesting. Good reason to fund basic research. Team Science!