Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder With TMS
How Severe is Your Depression?
Depression is a common but treatable psychiatric disorder. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), more than 322 million individuals around the world suffer from depression. Depression is usually characterized by depressed or low moods that are persistent and ever-present. Clinical depression does not result from normal, daily life stresses. Instead, it presents as severe, unrelenting sadness, extreme grief, or listless behavior.
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When antidepressants don’t work
While there is much about the human brain that remains a mystery, researchers have made great strides in increasing our understanding of how it works, and what causes disorders such as depression. Naturally, the medical community has been eager to take advantage of their findings.
Perhaps some of the most exciting recent discoveries have focused on the role the mood centers of the brain play in depression. Studies have proven that when these areas of the brain are stimulated, the severity of depression and the frequency of depressive episodes are decreased. Knowing this, the question becomes, what strategies and techniques should be utilized to the deliver the required stimulation?
tms is an alternative treatment
Depression does not have one solution. Each patient’s treatment must be tailored to their individual symptoms. However, when traditional medication and/or psychotherapy fail, there is now an innovative alternative treatment specifically designed to relieve symptoms through mood center stimulation. It’s called deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
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