Psychiatry & TMS Blog

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This is your brain on magnets

TMS stands for transcranial magnetic stimulation, but how does TMS work exactly?. It is a method of using magnets to stimulate the brain through the skull. So what do magnets have to do with the brain and depression? Let’s start with reviewing electrons, they are...

Optimize the Mental Health Benefits of Having a Pet!

Before jumping to that topic, this is assuming the individual is in a sufficient position to have a pet. This would include the ability to keep up with the pet's physical and emotional needs, expenses, and medical upkeep! Once that is met, let's dive in!   1.Physical...

Therapy and Psychiatric Care in Parenting

As a psychiatrist, I perform quite a bit a therapy along with medication management. As a matter of fact, therapy continues to be one of my most powerful tools. In training in this profession, they say it is not complete unless you receive therapy yourself and I could...

Emotional Contagion

Emotional contagion refers to shared behaviors or emotional states between individuals. This can be seen in primates as well as non primate organisms. This is believed to be facilitated by mirror neurons. When one organism observes an experience in another (such as...

What is Ketamine Therapy?

What is Ketamine Therapy?

Ketamine Therapy Ketamine has long been used in medicine as an anesthetic. It is also commonly used in veterinary medicine and has had some popularity as a recreational drug due to its relaxing sedative properties. More recently, the mental health community has...

Signs It Is Going Well or Not With Your Therapist

It is important to bear in mind, that effective therapy is not always what may instinctively come to mind. Believe it or not, therapy has a lot of science behind it. There are many different modalities of therapy (just like different types of exercise, medication,...

Existential Crisis

Image by Freepik   What are common symptoms of an existential crisis? emotionally, it is accompanied by very unpleasant feelings. They can include depressed mood, anxiety, fear, despair and an overall feeling of emotional pain. The caliber of the experience is...

Jealousy

Image by Freepik At what age do children feel jealousy? According to the study cited below "Jealousy emerged most intensely in the majority of children between approximately 1.1 and 2.3 years and at 3.5 years children distinguished between social situations which...

History of TMS for depression

History of TMS for depression

On this page: History of TMS TMS Past, Present, Future TMS For Depression The investigation of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and its impact on the brain has been a subject of deep exploration since the 1980s. However, it wasn't until 2008 that the FDA...