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New Frontiers in the Fight Against Depression

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Introduction

For many years, the prevailing theory for why people became depressed has centered on imbalances in some of the chemicals floating around in our brains. New acute treatments have begun to show major resultso important new option is actually stimulating parts of the brain with pulses of magnetic energy. We'll dig into the science and hope represented by new psychiatric developments like this.

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