World Mental Health Day comes around every October. This year, the theme adopted by the World Federation for Mental Health is “The Great Push: Investing in Mental Health.” The current magnitude of the problem of worldwide mental illness, according to World Health Organization (WHO), is staggering. The WHO estimates that about 450 million people worldwide suffer from a mental or behavioral disorder; nearly 1 million people commit suicide every year; and one in four families has at least one...

SAVANNAH, Georgia (EGMN) – Deep brain stimulation may have potential for treating geriatric psychiatric disorders, particularly treatment-resistant depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already shown to be an effective therapy for Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, may hold promise for treatment of geriatric psychiatric disorders, Dr. Paul Holtzheimer said in a symposium on neuromodulation therapies at the annual meeting of the American Association...