Posted on: Saturday, 9 January 2010, 09: 39 CST Neurosurgeons in Heidelberg perform the world's first operation on the "habenula" to treat ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mannheim, performed the world's first operation on the habenula of a 64-year-old woman, who had suffered from the common psychiatric illness since age 18. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dr. Sartorius continued: "We aim to show that habenula stimulation has a better success rate than other target areas attempted for depression and that it is also safe to use". ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dr. Alexander Sartorius, psychiatrist at the CIMH, added: "We decided to stimulate the habenula because it is involved is the control of three major neurotransmitter systems, which are known to be disturbed in depression '". ❋ Unknown (2010)
WASHINGTON - Experts have been successfully able to treat a patient suffering from severe depression by stimulating the habenula, a tiny nerve structure in the brain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
January 9th, 2010 WASHINGTON - Experts have been successfully able to treat a patient suffering from severe depression by stimulating the habenula, a tiny nerve structure in the brain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A team of neurosurgeons at Heidelberg University Hospital and psychiatrists at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim, performed the world's first operation on the habenula of a 64-year-old woman, who had suffered from the common psychiatric illness since age 18. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And while the habenula communicates to many brain regions involved in decision making, various regions transmit messages to the habenula, too. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mirrione and her collaborators at Brookhaven have shown a link between elevated habenula activity and symptoms of depression in rats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Virtually all kinds of vertebrates have this habenula, which suggests that it is very important for survival," says Okihide Hikosaka of the National Eye Institute, an NIH agency in ❋ Unknown (2008)
Md. When a monkey is faced with a nonrewarding choice, neurons in the lateral part of the habenula fire their signals rapidly, Hikosaka and Masayuki Matsumoto reported in ❋ Unknown (2008)
To most people, who have never heard of the habenula, free will's existence seems obvious, because they can make up their own mind whether to believe in it or not. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But like tourists exploring a strange city without a GPS map, scientists don't know how all the neural neighborhoods are connected and occasionally encounter surprising enclaves-such as a place in the brain called the lateral habenula. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Direct intervention in the habenula might offer an alternative, Mirrione says. ❋ Unknown (2008)
An overactive habenula, by damping dopamine, could drive depression by denying the brain the power to choose pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And the latest research suggests that that's a job for the habenula. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Informing the debate over the reality of 'free will' requires learning something about the lateral habenula ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Dopamine neurons contribute to learning of actions based on good experiences," Hikosaka says, "whereas lateral habenula neurons are probably involved in learning of actions based on bad experiences." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Their study found that deep brain stimulation of the habenula influenced the desire of addicted rats to self-administer cocaine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
