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More doctors are turning to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of their patient's brains, but fears of possible seizures may be limiting its growth as a therapeutic tool
Attractive Therapy: Magnetic Brain Stimulation Gaining Favor as Treatment for Depression
Seeded on Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:18 PM EDT
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I had it done, but the Party of No and Baggers still depress the hell out of me.
Levity aside, I did volunteer for an experiment at the University of Cincinnati where rTMS was used to try and determine if Broca's area of the brain (responsible for motor speech) was activated when an individual was watching a video of a person talking, thus activating Wernicke's Area of the brain.
It turns out that Broca's Area is activated in preparation of a motoric response to a monologue...very interesting technology.
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#1 - Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:37 PM EDTBrandon.... The are laughable (party of no.. teabaggers).. it adds comedy to an otherwise possible boring day.
Interesting that you tried that out..
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If it is "non-intrusive" and can be effectively used short-term with no adverse side effects, I would rather see something like this used before ever prescribing tranquilizers.
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#3 - Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:12 PM EDTIf they can fine-tune the 'dose', it would sure beat the heck out of those ineffective yet dreadfully expensive antidepressants.
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