Depression

Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases

Published in Health and Medicine Week, May 30th, 2005

Barbara Baas ran away from home and tried to kill herself as a teenager. As an adult, she has tried more than 15 varieties of antidepressants. But, thanks to a new weapon, she has finally reached a truce in a 45-year battle.

Baas said a new treatment for depression is changing her life - so much so that she's willing to drive 115 miles 5 days a week from Decatur to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where she is participating in an experimental study. She undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive, nonpharmacological technology, in which short pulses of magnetic energy stimulate nerve cells in a specific area of the brain - an area...

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