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Psychiatry & Mental Health
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Ian A Cook, MD, Director of Unipolar Depression Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses new treatment options for depression, particularly deep brain stimulation and injectable treatment forms that can give symptom reduction over the course of days rather than weeks. Medications that work on glutamate or GABA are also being trialed.
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