“…One of them is the subgenual cingulate gyrus (SCG), which has yielded an average of 68% of response and 44% of remission rates in five different studies (Anderson et al, 2012). To date, some of these previous studies have also investigated the cognitive effects of DBS for TRD, reporting cognitive safety of the nucleus accumbens (Grubert et al, 2011) andSCG stimulation (McNeely et al, 2008;Holtzheimer et al, 2012;Bogod et al, 2014;Moreines et al, 2014). However, these previously cited studies did not have a control group, and, if they did (Moreines et al, 2014), it was not followed over time.…”