60 Minutes looks at a potentially revolutionary new treatment for depression.

[Guest guest]

http://60minutes./segment/22/depression

Background

Eighteen million Americans suffer from major depression.

Most of them are treated successfully with a combination of talk

therapy and anti-depressant drugs. But millions of Americans, possibly

as many as four million, are afflicted with what is known as

treatment-resistant depression. For them, nothing works, not even

electric shock treatments. They endure lives of debilitating sadness

and some end up committing suicide.

But early results from an experiment in Canada have raised hopes for

an answer to their suffering. It involves surgery on a region of our

brains called area 25. And for the small group of patients who have

signed up, the risks seem worth taking because this is their last resort.

THIS IS QUITE DISTURBING, WHY NOT JUST GO FOR A LOBOTOMY???

[Guest guest]

http://60minutes./segment/22/depression

Background

Eighteen million Americans suffer from major depression.

Most of them are treated successfully with a combination of talk

therapy and anti-depressant drugs. But millions of Americans, possibly

as many as four million, are afflicted with what is known as

treatment-resistant depression. For them, nothing works, not even

electric shock treatments. They endure lives of debilitating sadness

and some end up committing suicide.

But early results from an experiment in Canada have raised hopes for

an answer to their suffering. It involves surgery on a region of our

brains called area 25. And for the small group of patients who have

signed up, the risks seem worth taking because this is their last resort.

THIS IS QUITE DISTURBING, WHY NOT JUST GO FOR A LOBOTOMY???

[Guest guest]

http://60minutes./segment/22/depression

Background

Eighteen million Americans suffer from major depression.

Most of them are treated successfully with a combination of talk

therapy and anti-depressant drugs. But millions of Americans, possibly

as many as four million, are afflicted with what is known as

treatment-resistant depression. For them, nothing works, not even

electric shock treatments. They endure lives of debilitating sadness

and some end up committing suicide.

But early results from an experiment in Canada have raised hopes for

an answer to their suffering. It involves surgery on a region of our

brains called area 25. And for the small group of patients who have

signed up, the risks seem worth taking because this is their last resort.

THIS IS QUITE DISTURBING, WHY NOT JUST GO FOR A LOBOTOMY???

[Guest guest]

http://60minutes./segment/22/depression

Background

Eighteen million Americans suffer from major depression.

Most of them are treated successfully with a combination of talk

therapy and anti-depressant drugs. But millions of Americans, possibly

as many as four million, are afflicted with what is known as

treatment-resistant depression. For them, nothing works, not even

electric shock treatments. They endure lives of debilitating sadness

and some end up committing suicide.

But early results from an experiment in Canada have raised hopes for

an answer to their suffering. It involves surgery on a region of our

brains called area 25. And for the small group of patients who have

signed up, the risks seem worth taking because this is their last resort.

THIS IS QUITE DISTURBING, WHY NOT JUST GO FOR A LOBOTOMY???