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By Mayo Clinic staffIf deep brain stimulation works, your depression symptoms will improve or go away completely. It may take several months of treatment with deep brain stimulation before you notice improvements in your depression symptoms. Not everyone with chronic depression, especially those who have had depression for years, gets better with deep brain stimulation.
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