Category: St. Jude Medical

UPDATE: See Mayberg's response to Bass's post.

Alison Bass posted an interesting item on her eponymous blog regarding Helen Mayberg's Sunday morning talk at ScienceWriters2010. The talk was on the use of deep-brain stimulation to treat depression--a potentially breakthrough technology (and I don't use that word lightly) that is in its earliest tests.

In her item--headlined "Keynote scientist at ScienceWriters conference dances around the truth"--Bass says Mayberg's talk was too anecdotal, left out "a few salient details,"...