This isn't "junk science". DBS has been shown to have an antidepressant effect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730500156X http://www.sc

This isn't "junk science". DBS has been shown to have an antidepressant effect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730500156X http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627305... It can be compared to a support vector machine or FPGA in that it can be tuned easily to each patient's specific parameters. There have been successes and failures just as machine learning has had, and it all comes down to the parameters of stimulation.