Aiming to stimulate better outcomes: new electrical and magnetic therapies aim to help people with treatment-resistant depression reclaim their lives.(TREATMENT ADVANCES)

From: Behavioral Healthcare | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: Hagland, Mark | Copyright information

Behavioral healthcare professionals have been trying to help patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) since the dawn of modern psychotherapy. Antidepressant medications and modern electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in conjunction with psychotherapy, have been used to treat patients with TRD, but many patients remain so severely depressed that they are nonfunctional or barely functional. Yet several new therapies, which involve applying electrical or magnetic stimulation to ...

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