New treatments for severe depression

According to the WHO, depression is the leading cause of disability, with more than more than 300 million sufferers around the world. For the vast majority help comes in two main ways, medication or therapy. In Canada however, almost a million people live with treatment-resistant depression, so doctors are looking at different approaches that go straight to the source within the brain.

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