Psychiatry & TMS Blog

A magnetic coil is placed over the skull and generates an electromagnetic field over the left prefrontal cortex. This generates action potentials to activate brain cells and with repeated sessions is hypothesized to cause longer standing changes. By increasing...

With about 14 million Americans suffering from depression, it is estimated that about 4 million are not benefiting from their medication management and other conventional treatment methods. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is the leading...

Helen M. Farrell talks about depression and what it is: Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world. In the US, close to 10% of adults suffer from this. But, since it is a mental illness, it can be harder to understand say compared to high blood...

Kevin:At the age of 17, I developed bipolar disorder, a very severe it nearly cost me my life and nearly destroyed my family. My parents are getting divorced at the time [of my suicide attempt]. I believed that I was the only one under that cloud. That was so far from...

Eric remembers all too vividly what it was like to have depression. He found himself isolating, crying, barely functioning in life, it even physically hurt. He even felt suicidal. Eric recalls trying everything under the sun. Then a psychiatrist suggested deep TMS....

This is the story of a patient who has been battling depression for 14 years. Unfortunately, she has felt like nothing has really worked. She reached a point where the depression got so severe that it literally took her hours to get out of bed in the morning. Like...

Michelle was diagnosed with major depressive disorder at the age of 12. The last episode was over a year long and debilitating. This is the story of a patient who invested great effort at various forms of treatment including medication management and therapy. It felt...