Shaping plasticity with non-invasive brain stimulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: Present and future.

ABSTRACT: The final chapter of this book addresses plasticity in the setting of treating psychiatric disorders. This chapter largely focuses on the treatment of depression and reviews the established antidepressant brain stimulation treatments, focusing on plasticity and maladaptive plasticity. Depression is a unique neuropsychiatric disease in that the brain goes from a healthy state into a pathologic state, and then, with appropriate treatment, can return to health often without permanent sequelae. Depression thus differs fundamentally from neurodegenerative brain diseases like Parkinson's disease or stroke. Some have theorized that depression involves a lack of flexibility or a lack of plasticity. The proven brain stimulation methods for treating depression cause plastic changes and include acute

SUBMITTER: George MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9985830 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature