From the archives: Nolan Williams on a promising treatment for depression

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:19:38 +0000

Innovative neuroscientist Nolan Williams, the director of Stanford University's Brain Stimulation Lab, who developed the use of targeted magnetic stimulation to treat depression without drugs or therapy, died Oct. 8, 2025 at age 43. His wife told The New York Times he died by suicide after suffering from depression himself. In this 2021 “Sunday Morning” report, Williams talked with Lee Cowan about the success in trials of his experimental treatment, called SAINT (Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy).

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