Posted by Dan Perkins on December 15, 2004, at 12:49:36
In reply to Magnetic Seizure Therapy versus ECT, posted by ed_uk on December 15, 2004, at 9:02:09
I am skeptical.
I am participating in a study of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (like MST w/o the seizure), under the care of one of the doctors who authored the study you are referring to. I have completed 27 of 30 40-minute-long procedures and have had absolutely no improvement in my depression. I have heard from a lot of people who have had TMS, and very few have experienced positive results.
MST is different, of course, because you have an actual seizure instead of just being exposed to repeated magnetic impulses (which are quite painful, by the way), but I still have my doubts. Both TMS and MST have been around for a while but neither of them has been approved for widespread use yet. This makes me believe that MST like TMS may not live up to the hype.
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