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‘Pacemaker for the brain’: How it treated her severe depression

Sarah struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts for years, until scientists at UCSF implanted what some call a “pacemaker for the brain.” Subscribe to CNET: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok:

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Sarah struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts for years, until scientists at UCSF implanted what some call a “pacemaker for the brain.”

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  1. Caesar

    October 24, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    I hope this can easily be hacked.

  2. Lamar2081

    October 24, 2021 at 4:33 pm

    Losing a couple hundred pounds might’ve made her a bit happier. Maybe she should’ve tried that first before trying a brain buzzer.

  3. wellthi

    October 24, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    that doesn’t cure the underling problem she just need proper nutrition and less S.A.D standard american diet
    its a short term fix hiding the brain’s warning so something else will fail instead heart, kidney, liver …
    ressources available on YT : nutritionfacts / Physicians Committee / Dr.Klaper / John McDougall / Joel Fuhrman /Dr.Greger …

  4. Christopher Johnson

    October 24, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    They could have just NOT destroyed civilization as we knew it, that would have cut down on depression. No, there solution was to nail a car battery into your brain. This is crazy.

  5. Jakob Dering

    October 24, 2021 at 5:07 pm

    2030: Nationwide Brain Implant Mandate.

  6. infinite 8

    October 24, 2021 at 5:20 pm

    You know what else would’ve worked much more efficiently ? Leaving the brawd in third world country to fend for herself.

  7. YouAndImpact

    October 24, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    Very nice video 👌

  8. Beauty Business Essentials

    October 24, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    This technology is great and im sure it won’t be used to for evil🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

    • Jacob Handel

      October 24, 2021 at 10:30 pm

      Right, there’s NO WAY for this to be misused, not even a slight possibility.

  9. Andy Altman

    October 24, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    Experimental implants are increasingly common. Are they going to replace drug therapies?

    • Stan

      October 24, 2021 at 6:56 pm

      Sure, the medical industrial complex needs the next thing to bait us with.

    • SCORPION FIRE

      October 24, 2021 at 10:26 pm

      what a stan…

    • Alberto Portugal

      October 24, 2021 at 10:51 pm

      Your mom

  10. Mich Washington

    October 24, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    This is both excitingly promising and terrifying at the same time ‼️🧬🔬🧪

  11. YHY ALI

    October 24, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    Take a moment and Be grateful with what you have

    Show gratitude for all grace
    This can treat depression to some extend..

    • Assassin

      October 24, 2021 at 7:46 pm

      Ratio

  12. Nathaniel alaburg

    October 24, 2021 at 8:14 pm

    And here it starts 🙂 trans humanism here we go

    • Alberto Portugal

      October 24, 2021 at 10:56 pm

      What

  13. Hoody K

    October 24, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    THATS THE MOST PATHETIC WAY TO DEAL WITH ANY MENTAL PROBLEM, LIKE DO SOME PUSHUPS MIGHT HAVE HELPED, LIKE YOUR BRAIN ALREADY RELEASED THESE KINDS OF THINGS TO HELP YOU AND KEEP YOU HEALTHY IF YOUR HEALTHY

  14. Nyankana

    October 24, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    I would love to know what it feels like to suddenly have your negative thoughts gone away. Can the lady still have negative thoughts or she can’t?

  15. J Crow

    October 24, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    Zero joy. None. Only those who’ve felt it know it.

  16. Berry Summers

    October 24, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    A device that changes how you feel about things, hum what can go wrong there?

    • Gnarglig

      October 24, 2021 at 10:13 pm

      Good way to program a customer, an army, an electorate. However they feel, you can just turn them on or off.

  17. David CD

    October 24, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    This is absolute insanity. A brain taser isn’t the solution to your darkness anymore than street drugs are. People are depressed for a reason. Sometimes there is no solutions to that reason, but that doesn’t mean we should sweep the symptoms of depression under the rug with more technology. That’s dangerous for many reasons.

  18. Jerry Ortiz

    October 24, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    Ah, yes! I’m severely depressed, because I have no purpose in life. That wouldn’t be a problem, if depression didn’t feel so bad. So, I’ll put this little brain implant in my head, and then I won’t have any purpose or feelings! 😀

    • Marauder

      October 24, 2021 at 10:23 pm

      My wife left me and took my money, my kids hate my guts, my mother is disappointed in me, my dad became my second mom, I was fired and replaced by an Indian worker, there is no God, my car won’t start, my cat died, and I’m on the edge of going postal. But hey, I’m not feelin’ too bad!

    • SCORPION FIRE

      October 24, 2021 at 10:28 pm

      let the past go. exercise a lot and try to live in the now. saved me.

    • Walid

      October 24, 2021 at 10:44 pm

      @SCORPION FIRE More than that, people need purpose in life. Even if what you do in the moment makes you happy, you’ll just fall back into darkness when the moment is over. Purpose gives you lasting happiness. Sadly, people are becoming very nihilistic and so no point in life.

  19. chimeric 777

    October 24, 2021 at 10:28 pm

    As a business owner or politician this will be great!!! We’ll be able to treat people like cattle like we always have, but now they’ll be made artificially happy and not want to change what is making them depressed in the first place, sweeeeeeet lmao

    • 4GUI4

      October 25, 2021 at 12:07 am

      It looks like you don’t understand how depression works.

  20. Aaron Bellamy

    October 24, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    You mean the implant made her so dumb she thought she was cured

  21. Mary Loves God

    October 24, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    GOD is the ANSWER not IMPLANTATION. Set your affection towards Heavenly things NOT Earthly things. Children of God shouldn’t be celebrating Halloween. Follow Jesus Christ NOT celebrities, this celebrities can’t take you to heaven. Destruction is coming to the world. The day of the Lord is at hand, Repent of all of your sins everyone and be born again. FORSAKE any and every appetite for SIN, HUNGER and THIRST for JESUS CHRIST. Focus your eyes on Jesus Christ NOT on the things of this evil world and NOT on celebrities. RAPTURE is IMMINENT. SEPARATE yourselves from the WORLD and be MARRIED to JESUS CHRIST. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, DO NOT DIE IN SIN. DO NOT BE LEFT BEHIND. All of the entertainment and enjoyment in this world will soon disappear, HEAVEN is PERMANENT this WORLD is TEMPORARY.

  22. Alberto Portugal

    October 24, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    See you in ten years boys

  23. mocha bear

    October 24, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    I think if this woman got a personal trainer and a therapist she wouldn’t have depression, she would look and feel happier. Cause and effect.

    • Levi

      October 25, 2021 at 5:10 am

      Depression doesn’t work like that.

  24. Matt Hatfield

    October 25, 2021 at 12:18 am

    this is insane…..

  25. Dogzilla

    October 25, 2021 at 2:01 am

    Came because I thought this was an Onion-tier satirical title, stayed because it was cool.

  26. Ney's

    October 25, 2021 at 2:11 am

    Trust me I need these demons out like I need a hole in my head. …wait

  27. rahul banerjee

    October 25, 2021 at 2:20 am

    Next step nuralink. Black mirror web seriz.

  28. Picasso Black

    October 25, 2021 at 2:26 am

    Ah “there is no war in ba sing sei” but in technicolor. Is this a dope or a nope? I’m voting nope.

  29. Take Lopey

    October 25, 2021 at 3:01 am

    Jesus is your free gift to heaven when you believe in his death, burial and resurrection you are immediately saved

  30. AJLarena

    October 25, 2021 at 3:17 am

    Dopamine kick

  31. Alex Calderon

    October 25, 2021 at 3:27 am

    Did she try psychedelic assisted therapy ?

  32. MTC

    October 25, 2021 at 4:14 am

    So will we be able to cure pedophiles, and murders, to ptsd? Cause that be great.

  33. Just Having Fun

    October 25, 2021 at 4:20 am

    What an amazing and significant treatment! More specific than oral medications that aim to change brain chemistry, this delivers treatment at the locus causing her to ideate suicide. I hope it becomes a viable and affordable option.

  34. Jose Miguel Diaz Leon

    October 25, 2021 at 5:02 am

    new age labotomy

    • Babbs Johnson

      October 25, 2021 at 7:09 am

      Lobotomy

  35. CBV

    October 25, 2021 at 5:09 am

    Nope

  36. ThePontiacfirebird

    October 25, 2021 at 5:35 am

    Hope they give us an update on her and see how’s she going in a few months 🥰

  37. chimichangas

    October 25, 2021 at 7:42 am

    *execute order 66.*

  38. Cortel 33

    October 25, 2021 at 9:42 am

    Let the weak die…

  39. Steven Bradley Knows

    October 25, 2021 at 10:04 am

    libido-booster

  40. 86Smally

    October 25, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    Maybe try loose weight via diet changes

  41. G. Adams

    October 26, 2021 at 12:54 am

    Very similar to VNS, but for the brain.

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