How Does Transcranial Magnetic Therapy Treat Depression?
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Transcranial Magnetic:
An Effective Treatment For Nonpsychotic Patients With Depression
Depression is a often unspoken disease, as women and men hide themselves away from the world , closeted in the obscurity of their own despair . For many the affliction gets deeper as they are given drug after drug , and yet the stupor cannot be boosted from the bubble that enfold them. If you are afflicted by deep depression where medication has been worthless you may find hope in a bright beam of light that is starting to shed some light on new remedies for treating different types of depression . TMS or using magnetic energy is the treatment, and it does not involve having to swallow dangerous drugs , orhaving to be concerned about dangerous side effects.
It can be very difficult to even put out the energy necessary to properly address your depression, but new treatments involving the use of magnets are starting to grow as more studies demonstrate the evidence of its success in clinical studies. There are over 300 research studies going on all around , such as Imperial University London, and California, Yale, Israel Institute of Technology, Harvard , and many more institutions of learning and research. Many of these studies have witnessed success in their collaborate research , and propose support in of the optimistic effects of this unconventional treatment option.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
In several ongoing clinical research trials transcranial magnetic stimulation is being employed to study the effect of magnetic energy for treating depression. Transcranial magnetic stimulation in this clinical study on the whole involves pulses of magnetic energy that are used to ignite regions of the brain that cause depression.
In one study example clinical researchers employed repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and match up to traditional electroconvulsive treatments . Half the patients, which were treated with the magnetic stimulus , went on requiring little if any follow up treatment , but the placebo fraction of patients did require follow up therapy for their depression. Another study at the Medical Varsity of South Carolina, 20 patients suffering from depression who were unsuccessful to find help from prescribed medication were treated for fifteen to twenty minutes a day for a six weeks using pulsating magnetic therapy, and the results showed that 12 out of the 20 patients had at least a 50 % reduction in their depression symptoms.
To correctly treat patients with this type of magnetic treatment called TMS for short, is to exactly place the magnetic fields over the correct part of a research patients brain is in need of reticulation. It is understood from the results of scanning test subjects that suffered with depression that there is a reduced activity and blood flow in the left frontal lobe, an quarter of the brain above the forehead that is involved in thinking and planning. In the clinical studies and treatment electromagnets are placed over the cerebral cortex of the brain above the left frontal lobe to apply a magnetic field that that can pass through the skull and into the brain to get the brain networking up to normal levels. The electromagnetic pulses are similar to the strength used in MRI’s, but stated to be better focused. As an end result researcher found that the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation that was used verses traditional electroconvulsive treatments was as effective in the management of non-psychotic clinical test subject tormented by severe depression. To be accurate these test subjects suffered from extreme cases of depression,none the less, magnetic therapy without the pulsating energy have been very successful in treating other types of deseases, illness, and chronic pain too .
Electromagnetic pulse therapy has been used effectively , in cases of Arthritis epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, severe migraines and with some schizophrenia . In contrast to electroconvulsive therapy, which works by inducing a seizure, TMS is relatively benign. test subjects don’t require sedation, and the clinical patients did not appear to experience lapse in cognition or memory functioning, this type of therapy does run a extremely small chance of an involuntary seizure.
http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/Magnetic-stimulation-may-be-as-effective-as-electroconvulsive-therapy-in-treating-severe-depression-8940-1/
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