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Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Severe Depression by 70%, Major US Trial Finds
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Genuinely, we're better at preventing memory formation and experience of pain than actual sedation. Patients can be cognitively present, and the reason they're not traumatized from a experiencing a surgery is that we're preventing the experience from leaving a mark on the brain
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40626585/