TMS VS ECT TREATMENT
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Board certified neurologist Dr. Ali Elahi discusses the benefits of repetitive TMS over ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). Some misconceptions that need to be clarified are, a lot of patients may hear the words βtranscranial magnetic stimulationβ and immediately think shock therapy. We know that this is absolutely not the same. Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT is an old method of treating intractable depression, where patients are actually anesthetized. The patient is placed into a seizure after which they may experience short term memory loss. TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) is a completely opposite type of procedure where in fact the patients are awake, alert, conscious. Thereβs no anesthesia, thereβs no invasive procedures, thereβs no lines or cannulas, thereβs no seizure being induced and we can achieve the same outcomes that ECT has proven to be helpful in the past without any of those invasive side effects. So itβs definitely not the same. Itβs non-invasive, thereβs no shocking in terms of causing a seizure or inducing a seizure and thereβs no anesthesia involved, thereβs no short term memory loss.
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