With the help of electric current, depression can be cured.

Canadian researchers led by Dr. Andrés Lozano of the University of Toronto have developed a new treatment for depression. They found that patients with severe depression who could not be corrected with medication could benefit from exposure to a certain area of ​​the brain.

Currently, the most common way to treat depression is with medication. But it has several disadvantages: significant side effects and contraindications. Moreover, sometimes severe depression is generally not amenable to correction with drugs.

Therefore, back in 2002, Canadian scientists began to develop a new, therapeutic method of treatment. Its essence lies in the impact on the part of the isthmus of the cingulate gyrus - the area of ​​the brain located quite deeply. It is this site, scientists say, that plays a significant role in the regulation of human emotions, that is, is associated with the development of depressive states.

To stimulate the isthmus, doctors implanted electrodes into the patients through which weak impulses of electric current were passed, RIA Novosti reported.

Researchers conducted experiments throughout the year. As a result, 12 out of 20 subjects showed a significant improvement in their condition, and 7 patients showed complete recovery.

Scientists plan to conduct a repeated series of experiments with a new group of patients. Similar studies are conducted in Ohio, Germany and Belgium, but other brain structures are stimulated there.