Posted by twinleaf on September 18, 2010, at 14:51:38
In reply to Re: TMS safety » twinleaf, posted by linkadge on September 18, 2010, at 13:52:03
If you give ENOUGH electromagnetic current, you can certainly cause a seizure. From what I have read, and from the physicians I've talked to, there have not been any instances of seizures with the amounts used for treatment. Patients with a history of seizures are never accepted for treatment.
Could you give a reference for TMS causing a worsening of psychosis? I haven't come across any reference to that. If it's true, it's extremely serious and should be mentioned in all these discussions. Babble has been in the vanguard of giving accurate information about the negative effects of SSRIs, and it would be great if we could do that for all major psychiatric treatments.
Doctors like Mark George at the University of South Carolina, who have worked with TMS for 25 years say that they have always kept the possibility of tumor causation in mind, but that they feel reassured on this point after so much time without any evidence of it..
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