Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Team Tests Model to Enable More Effective Targeting of Non-Invasive TMS Treatments in Depression
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation used to treat depression, has shown its ability to reduce symptoms in many thousands of patients in the years since… Read More
Positive Preliminary Results in Highly Personalized Deep-Brain Stimulation Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
A research team led in part by two BBRF grantees has reported initial success in using a novel, highly personalized, and technologically advanced treatment approach to relieve symptoms in a single… Read More
Study Indicates Brain Lesions and Treatment Targets in Depression Affect the Same Circuitry, Suggesting New Treatment Possibilities
Researchers have reported that the brain circuitry underlying depression is the same or similar in a wide variety of patients and circumstances, and that it is similar to circuitry affected when… Read More
In Major Depression, Accelerated rTMS Brain Stimulation Shows Promise
Researchers have obtained encouraging results in an early test of an accelerated form of non-invasive brain stimulation to treat major depressive disorder. Read More
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Continued to Help Veterans with PTSD a Year After Treatment
In two related published papers, a research team that included three recipients of BBRF grants has reported evidence suggesting that a form of non-invasive brain stimulation may be an effective new… Read More