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I don't understand these dismissive comments. The days of electroshock therapy are over, now medical research is based on evidence. If researchers are able to p
by elcomet 4y ago
I don't understand these dismissive comments. The days of electroshock therapy are over, now medical research is based on evidence. If researchers are able to prove that it is efficient and safe, why shouldn't we use this ?
Or maybe you are a medical researcher / doctor and could share more information about this and why you think it is dumb ?
- superchroma 4y agohttps://www.madinamerica.com/2020/04/tms-damaged-my-brain/ https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/04/tms-damaged-my-brain/ It's not safe. It damaged this person. Even one person is a cause for alarm because you cannot undo this.
- amelius 4y agoThat is magnetic stimulation, which is something else.
- mattkrause 4y agoSpecifically, it’s a few hundred times stronger: the electric fields created during TMS are often > 100 V/m, vs. < 1 V/m here, and the magnetic stimulation has a much faster dV/dt too. I certainly don’t want to dismiss the account linked above—-it’s obviously tragic—but TMS is generally regarded as pretty safe. I agree with the author that we need to understand depression and possible therapies better, but they’re very tough problems.
- elcomet 4y agoIf it is not safe then it will not be used. I'm not saying this specific therapy is safe or not, I have no idea about it. I'm just saying, trust the professional researchers and doctors instead of strangers on the internet.