Depression can be treated with electromagnets (better than drugs)

(NaturalNews) A therapy known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which involves inducing electromagnetic fields in the brain, may ease the symptoms of depression in hard-to-treat patients better than antidepressant drugs, researchers have found. “This study should help settle the debate about whether rTMS works for depression,” said lead researcher Mark George of the Medical University of South Carolina. “We can now follow up clues suggesting ways to improve its effectiveness, and hopefully further develop a potential new class of stimulation treatments for other brain disorders.” RTMS therapy uses highly focused magnetic pulses similar in strength to those produced by an MRI to induce an electric current in the Dorsilateral Prefrontal Cortex in the front left portion of the brain. Over the course of a single, 37-minute session, the brain is exposed to a total of 3,000 such pulses. RTMS is the only FDA-approved biological depression treatment besides antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, also known as electroshock therapy). It functions under basically the same mechanism as ECT, but without inducing seizures. Prior studies …

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Depression can be treated with electromagnets (better than drugs)

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