Researchers from Rambam Medical Center’s psychiatric department say they have developed a new deep-brain stimulation approach (DBS) for patients with schizophrenia, a severe chronic mental disorder, that could restore functions that control movement, learning, and decision-making, according to the Hebrew news outlet Mako.
The peer-reviewed findings appeared in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
“The study proposes a new therapeutic direction, which may in the future expand the treatment options for patients with schizophrenia who do not respond sufficiently to the existing treatments,” says Dr. Nir Asch, a doctor and researcher in Haifa’s Rambam Psychiatric Department, who led the study under the guidance of Prof. Hagai Bergman, a neuroscientist from the Hebrew University and recipient of the Israel Prize.
Asch says the result can serve as a basis for “treating the cognitive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia that are resistant to medication.”
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