Medical teams specializing in neurosurgery and psychiatrists at King Salman Medical City in Medina have succeeded in alleviating the suffering of a patient suffering from chronic depression, accompanied by over 25 years of surgery to relieve his severe symptoms and the anxiety that accompanies.
A medical team of psychiatrists and neurosurgeons was formed to discuss the case and approve surgery to alleviate the severe symptoms of depression and anxiety associated with it.
The team performed a “bilateral anterior gyrus resection” under general anesthesia, which was successful without complications. The patient’s mood and psychological condition improved, the hours of sleep returned to normal rhythm and he moved away from permanent sadness and excessive thinking about death and anxiety about the future.
Interestingly, King Salman Medical City in Medina provides a neurosurgery service for depressed patients, through a medical team in neurosurgery, through brain surgery using advanced and precise surgical techniques to relieve symptoms of depression, and this service it is the only one of its kind in the Middle East.
