TMS is Better Than Drugs*
*in a randomized controlled trial
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed newsletter. Today, I have good news…for me. Ok, it’s also good news for patients with depression. For me, it’s good news because I get to experience the most delicious pleasure of the know-it-all…I get to be Right about something I have been saying this…whole…time. Insufferable, I know.
Today, I bring news about my favorite intervention, transcranial magnetic stimulation, abbreviated TMS. I regularly write about TMS in this fine newsletter, for example here, also here, as well as review its use in OCD here, make snarky comments about here, review my coauthored data on its use in an accelerated manner here, and also explain the science here, I podcast here, make the case that remission with TMS is the best acceptable outcome here, podcast again about here, I discuss the treatment modality with
here, describe the Soft White Underbelly here, discuss issues in TMS clinical trial design here, was in a band in college called The Mag…