Category Archives: Depression
Magnetic Brain Stimulation can help treat drug resistant depression study finds
According to the results of a new study, the once-controversial method of beaming magnetic fields into the frontal areas of the brain saw one third of the 1132 patients with severe depression go into remission.
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Helps Depression
If you or a loved one suffers from depression and you’re having success with anti-depressants or psychotherapy, you might try something called deep Trans-cranial Magnetic Stimulation or TMS...
Tracking the Risks and Rewards of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
For the first time in many years, John Elder Robison entered a sixth-floor lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and settled into a chair. He was there to demonstrate — although not actually repeat — a procedure known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, in which electromagnetic impulses are fired into carefully targeted areas of a patient’s brain.
Penn Research Reveals Brain Region Crucial for Using Boundaries to Navigate
Part of what differentiates that scene from a face or an object is the fact that it has boundaries, and University of Pennsylvania researchers Joshua Julian, Russell Epstein, Jack Ryan and Roy Hamilton aimed to parse out which part of the brain helps perceive those borders. What they learned, through two experiments involving transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS,...
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Might Treat Cocaine Addiction
Stimulating part of the brain with magnetic pulses may offer the first therapeutic treatment for cocaine addiction, a small new study suggests.