{"id":63,"date":"2021-10-06T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/?p=63"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:23:23","slug":"news-comment-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/2021\/10\/06\/news-comment-6\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times wp-block-embed-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"A \u2018Pacemaker for the Brain\u2019: No Treatment Helped Her Depression \u2014 Until This\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F10%2F04%2Fhealth%2Fdepression-treatment-deep-brain-stimulation.html#?secret=ysn0nW9eIy\" data-secret=\"ysn0nW9eIy\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For this week\u2019s News Comment I read the article from the<em> New York Times<\/em> called&nbsp; \u201cA \u2018Pacemaker for the Brain\u2019: No Treatment Helped Her Depression \u2014 Until This\u201d by Pam Belluck. It talked about the story of a woman named Sarah who has tried over 20 different methods to help massage her depression. None of them worked until this most recent attempt. She was the first participant in this experimental therapy. It works by a matchbook-sized device sending pulses of electrical stimulation in the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters, there really were no issues with the writing of this article. It wasn\u2019t objective or anything like that. It merely delivered the facts about the story\/trial. I also thought the writer did a nice job explaining a topic that in some cases is very sensitive. However, it was nice to see articles about depression and mental health in the news. I think it\u2019s good that mental health issues are being talked about more and more on such a large platform. My only \u201cissue\u201d if I were to have one is that the article does get long, but that is nothing new for an <em>NYT<\/em> article.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s News Comment I read the article from the New York Times called&nbsp; \u201cA \u2018Pacemaker for the Brain\u2019: No Treatment Helped Her Depression \u2014 Until This\u201d by Pam Belluck. It talked about the story of a woman named Sarah who has tried over 20 different methods to help massage her depression. None of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}