NP? mesmerized
Doug Millison
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 28 15:25:45 CDT 2002
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020825-111801-2480r
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Painless magnetic waves
pulsed across the brain appear to relieve depression
as well as the more traumatic and standard
electro-convulsive shock therapy, researchers said at
the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
Called repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation,
the experimental procedure, which consists of a series
of 20 treatments over a 2-to-4-week period,
dramatically improves the condition of people with
severe depression, said Sheila Dowd, associate
professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. [...]
In the treatment, an electrical current passes through
a metal coil applied to the scalp to produce
fluctuating magnetic pulses. The pulses affect nerve
cells in the brain in the area under the coil and
possibly in other areas. Dowd said when the device was
used as a probe by neurologists, some patients
reported an elevation in mood -- hence the research to
evaluate the machine as a treatment for depression. At
least two companies manufacture RTMS devices. [...]
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