TMS Promising Treatment Option for Suicide Ideation and Behaviors When major depression culminates in suicide ideation and/or behaviors there is an urgent need for a powerful intervention, something that traditional treatment protocols for depression do not provide. Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) has demonstrated to have a positive treatment effect even after just one session,…
Behavioral Health Providers Find Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Adds extra Dimension to Treating Major Depression When it comes to treating major depression, mental health providers and patients alike may be faced with the frustrating reality that traditional treatment methods—psychotherapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications—often fall short. For individuals suffering from treatment-resistant depression, failure to…
How dTMS shows improvement when other treatments fail For a sizable percentage of our veterans returning from tours of duty in the Middle East will require some form of Veterans PTSD Treatment. The debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has proven to be a formidable obstacle to reentering civilian life. Approximately 30% of veterans who served…
How dTMS can provide Effective Relief for Depression For many people battling depression, traditional medication therapy from among the various antidepressants available (SSRIs, DSRIs, or tricyclic antidepressants) can be effective in treating the disorder. For others, however, side effects from the drugs can be prohibitive, or the medications themselves are ineffective. For these patients who…
TMS Treats Medication-Resistant Depression Anyone who suffers from major depressive disorder (MDD) or persistent depressive disorder (PDD) would agree: They would do anything to feel like themselves again. The debilitating effects of depression have the potential to completely level a person in every aspect of their daily life. Persistent feelings of profound sadness, hopelessness, lethargy,…
Prefrontal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy repeated daily over 4-6 weeks (20-30 sessions) is US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for treating Major Depressive Disorder in adults who have not responded to prior antidepressant medications. In 2011, leading TMS clinical providers and researchers created the Clinical TMS Society (cTMSs) (www.clinicaltmssociety.org, Greenwich, CT, USA), incorporated…
Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening is a work of nonfiction by John Elder Robison, chronicling the author’s participation in a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study along with its after effects.