Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Research

Mayo Clinic was one of the leading centers for clinical trials of transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat depression. Mayo found TMS to be a safe and effective treatment for adults, and is studying TMS therapy for adolescents with depression. Mayo Clinic is also researching TMS as a treatment for chronic pain such as fibromyalgia.

One study in which Mayo Clinic participated compared TMS therapy in a group of people who had drug-resistant depression to a matched group of patients who received an inactive placebo form of TMS therapy. After four to six weeks, the TMS group was twice as likely to have remission of depression symptoms as the group receiving the placebo treatment.

Publications

See list of publications by Mayo doctors on transcranial magnetic stimulation on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.