Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 1043184

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Deep TMS

Posted by Twinleaf on May 4, 2013, at 16:36:44

Deep TMS, or the H-Coil, is going to be presented at the annual San Francisco psychiatric meeting. It already has FDA approval, but has yet to be manufactured or marketed in the US. The company is planning to manufacture and sell 100 units in the US within the next year, so the treatment should begin to be available in 2014..

The H-Coil can seSnd electro-magnetic pulses 8 cm. ( 5 inches) into the brain without anesthesia or excessive pain. A particularly exciting feature is that it will more directly stimulate the centers where motivation and reward are located in the limbic system. This is so encouraging because present treatments often treat the worst symptoms of depression, but do little to combat anhedonia and losses in motivation.

I hope this will be a great treatment. As a present rTMS responder, I would be very interested in switching to this newer technology when it becomes available. I think there are lots of other people here who might also be interested.

Re: Deep TMS

Posted by SLS on May 5, 2013, at 0:21:07

In reply to Deep TMS, posted by Twinleaf on May 4, 2013, at 16:36:44

Sign me up!

- Scott

Re: Deep TMS » SLS

Posted by Twinleaf on May 5, 2013, at 6:04:29

In reply to Re: Deep TMS, posted by SLS on May 5, 2013, at 0:21:07

Will do!

Re: Deep TMS » Twinleaf

Posted by Twinleaf on May 5, 2013, at 12:02:29

In reply to Re: Deep TMS » SLS, posted by Twinleaf on May 5, 2013, at 6:04:29

I just read about a very encouraging rTMS- H-Coil combined treatment done at NIH in 2012 for unipolar depression. At the end of the month of daily rTMS treatment, there was about a 25% improvement in depression scores - the rather modest rate we are familiar with. But when this treatment was followed with 3 months of the H-Coil trestment (deep brain stimulation), the improvement in depression scores was 80%.

If these findings hold up, it will be a great treatment for many, many people.

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