Despite decades of advances in mental health care, depression remains one of the world's most disabling conditions. Many ...

Ontario opens access to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for thousands with treatment-resistant ...

Nearly 90 years after Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini introduced electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), brain stimulation therapies ...

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, there has been more attention given to problems of mental ill-health including depression than ever before. A new therapeutic option, especially for depression, ...

A recent meta-analysis published in the journal eLife provides evidence that applying noninvasive magnetic stimulation to a ...

Not all patients with depression respond to medication. Two recently published studies provide additional information on how an alternative treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), could be ...

An international team has succeeded in using a magnetic field to target structures deep within the brain. The researchers ...

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As a noninvasive neuromodulation method, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) shows great potential to treat a range of mental and psychiatric diseases, including major depression. Current methods ...