Well Said

Flavio Frohlich has always been interested in the human brain. He became even more interested in its inner-workings after learning how brain cells produce a small amount of electricity, which results in “rhythms” in the brain. Even more interesting was his discovery that rhythms would respond to electric stimulation. When he arrived at Carolina in 2011, he recruited a team of students and academic colleagues to investigate the possibility that small electric charges could alter the brain rhythm of patients with schizophrenia. “We have a good scientific understanding of what to give to whom in terms of strength of the stimulation or duration of the stimulation,” said Frohlich, an associate professor. “There’s all these different things that you can choose when you do brain stimulation, which you can't really with medication. But with stimulation, millisecond-to-millisecond you can define and individualize how you want to stimulate.” Now, the team is applying those findings to depression. On this week's e