For years, doctors have been probing the use of targeted electrical shocks to treat clinical depression, and while many experts agree that it’s a promising avenue for treatment, the research has yielded mixed and limited results. 

Now, a University of California San Francisco case study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine shows that electrical stimulation can have a profound antidepressant effect — just so long as the shocks are carefully tailored to an individual patient’s specific moods and symptoms

“I’ve tried literally everything, and for the first few days I was a little worried that this wasn’t going to work,” the volunteer in the case study, a 36-year-old woman with severe depression, said in a press release...

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By Alison DeNisco Rayome c|net Staff    Image by Peter H from Pixabay 

Chances are you may not be planning a major blowout for Super Bowl 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic.

But just because you can't gather around the same TV together eating wings doesn't mean you can't watch the Bucs versus the Chiefs -- or, for some, the commercials and halftime show -- alongside friends and family in a virtual space. 

What app you choose to use depends on how you and your virtual friends and family plan on watching the game.

The game is streaming free on CBSSports.com, and on live TV streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV and FuboTV. 

Use the Teleparty app to watch the game, but only if you and your friends have Hulu Plus Live TV.

If your group will be watching on different cable or streaming platforms, your best bet for watching together might be good old Zoom.

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The findings reveal those who begin practicing an instrument at a younger age — like musical geniuses such as Mozart — have stronger connections than those who pick up an instrument later in life.

The discovery shows just one of the ways in which people’s experiences can shape their brain.

Whether it’s playing the piano, the clarinet, or the trumpet, researchers find musicians have stronger structural and functional connections in comparison to people who don’t play instruments...

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