Question: Can depression be stopped with specific brain surgery?

Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 14 Jun 2014:

That’s a good question. I’m really not a brain surgeon (I’m way too clumsy for that, you should see how I manage spill my coffee on myself almost one day out of two…), nor am I a medical doctor, but I think I’ve heard something like that recently in the news… I think it was here:
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-stimulation-may-treat-severe-depression-better-meds
I have no idea of how experimental it is, but I think it’s called ‘deep brain stimulation’:
http://www.healthline.com/health/depression/deep-brain-stimulation-dbs