Category Archives: TMS
Treatment relieves depression with electrical stimulation
Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. Transcranial magnetic stimulation is being used for treatment for a number of different health problems, including depression with positive results.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation: a non-invasive neurostimulation
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a type of non-invasive neurostimulation recently shown to restore function in spinal cord injury (SCI), when combined with stimulation of peripheral nerves.
Hearing Loss and Tinitus: The ringing, buzzing and hissing in the ears
Tinnitus, which is the number one medical injury that is affecting our military troops, has also become more prevalent in the United States population. There has, and continues to be, significant research on tinnitus and its treatment.
Healthwatch: Depression TMS
It's not a one-time solution. TMS is usually administered about 40 minutes a day, five days a week for six weeks. But Doctor Currier says it's one of the safest and most well-tolerated treatments for 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.
A Brain Therapy Changed My Life
Transcranial magnetic stimulation’ — it sounds like something a nutty professor would develop in a science fiction movie. Yet this batty-sounding treatment changed my life in a profound way.
Brain Stimulation May Help People with Eating Disorders
“Anorexia nervosa is thought to affect up to 4 per cent of women in their life-time. With increasing illness duration, anorexia becomes entrenched in the brain and increasingly difficult to treat. Our preliminary findings support the potential of novel brain-directed treatments for anorexia, which are desperately needed,” stated Kings College researcher Professor Ulrike Schmidt.
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.