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February 10, 2021
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly effective in treating severe psychiatric conditions, but its cognitive side effects have been a limiting factor in its clinical use. Fortunately, decades of research have led to improvements in ECT technique that h ...
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February 10, 2021
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March 5, 2016
Treatment-resistant depression remains an important clinical problem in need of novel treatment solutions. Electro-convulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation are two neuromodulation techniques with promise in the treatment of severe and chron ...
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June 5, 2015
The magnetic approach to seizure therapy is based on the hypothesis that the electrical currents induced in deep brain structures by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may contribute to the adverse cognitive side effects. This chapter reviews the rationale fo ...
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November 21, 2012
A few studies of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an anxiety disorder treatment have been reported. In treatment studies, the focal application of TMS in the treatment of anxiety disorders has been guided by the present understanding of the neuro ...
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November 21, 2012
This article discusses synaptic plasticity as a potential mechanism of enduring changes in function observed after relatively brief periods of repetitive (r)TMS. Plasticity is a use dependent enduring change in neural structure and function. The characteri ...
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November 21, 2012
This article explores the emergence of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a new therapeutic approach and the implications of this technology for the study and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, with a focus on major depression. Relapse, chron ...
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January 1, 2010
Introduction Brain stimulation represents a growing family of interventions that alter brain function using electrical fields that are either directly applied or indirectly induced using rapidly alternating magnetic fields. Brain stimulation techniques inc ...
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January 1, 2002
TMS utilizes the principle of electromagnetic induction, which was first discovered by Michael Faraday in 1831. It involves the discharge of a large current (peak current: approximately 5000 amps) from a capacitor through a copper-wire coil. A rapid time-v ...
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