The promise of brain stimulation treatments for depression, with Sarah Lisanby, MD, and Diana Daniele

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been a treatment option for people with major depression since it was approved by the FDA in 2008. Today, it is also used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety and for smoking cessation. Sarah “Holly” Lisanby, MD, director of the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health, talks about how TMS works and recent advances in TMS treatment, as well as other brain stimulation treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy. Writer Diana Daniele also offers her perspective on how TMS helped her overcome treatment-resistant depression. For transcripts, links and more information, please visit the Speaking of Psychology Homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	About 21 million adults in the U.S. suffer from depression.
0:05.0	For some of them, the first-line treatments of therapy and antidepressant drugs don't help.
0:10.0	So what can they do?
0:12.0	In recent years, another treatment option has emerged, transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS,
0:20.0	which uses high-powered magnets to stimulate electrical
0:22.7	activity in targeted areas of the brain and can alleviate or put into remission people's
0:28.9	treatment-resistant depression.
0:32.0	Brain stimulation treatments, including TMS, are not new, but in recent years they've
0:36.9	become more effective and more available, and TMS has not new, but in recent years they've become more effective and more available.
0:39.7	And TMS has earned the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
0:44.3	So how does it work?
0:46.0	What is happening in the brain during TMS treatments?
0:49.4	What mental health disorders can it treat?
0:52.1	Only depression?
0:53.0	Or does it work for, say, anxiety? Who is it
0:56.5	most useful for? Are there people who should not try it? And are there side effects? Who can
1:03.0	administer it and what other types of brain stimulation treatments are researchers investigating?
1:08.8	Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association
1:13.6	that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.
1:18.6	I'm Kim Mills.
1:23.6	We have two guests today.
1:24.6	Our first is Dr. Sarah Lisenby, a psychiatrist and the director of the non-invasive
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