Olympia Center for TMS & Psychiatry
Holistic Mental Health Care
Dealing with PTSD can be overwhelming and confusing. It can take a toll on every aspect of a person’s life and make them feel vulnerable. In fact, people exposed to traumatic events often experience feelings and exhibit reactions similar to the ones they experienced during the traumatic event. Hence if you or a loved one …
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and How It Works Several individuals deal with mental health issues and need professional help to manage their condition. Many treatments are available, including a combination of therapies, medications, and other care options, with varying levels of effectiveness and success. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive, non-drug intervention-based therapy that has …
Stimulating brain regions to treat Parkinson’s disease, depression, and other disorders involving brain damage could become more precise, thanks to a new way of mapping the brain circuitry involved in those conditions. The study describing this research, “Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease,” was published in Nature Human Behaviour. Depression …
NEW BEDFORD — When Dr. Jonathan Schwartz was first introduced to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) via cold call advertisements in 2015, he felt it was “like science fiction” and didn’t think anything of it. At a conference one year later, after a guest speaker shared TMS success stories, Schwartz was shocked by the results. “My …
Although clinical depression is relatively common in Southern Utah, finding the right treatment can be challenging. For people who haven’t had success with antidepressants, transcranial magnetic stimulation is approved by the Food and Drug Administration and boasts a high success rate. Integrated TMS owner and director Forrest Wolverton believes TMS can bridge the gap from just …
BOISE, Idaho — A Meridian psychiatrist has begun experimenting with an alternative treatment for depression. The treatment is essentially an “exercise” the brain does until it is healthy again. Conventional treatment for depression is usually one or more types of medication but can vary greatly from person to person. If necessary, counseling and therapy can …
Psychiatric populations perceive the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for mental health conditions to be beneficial, safe, and no more dangerous than conventional therapy options like medication—as indicated by a systematic review published in the peer-reviewed journal Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. The review also concludes that, while the positive participant attitudes and experiences observed …
This is a brain stimulation technique that’s been used to treat conditions such as depression for almost ten years in Australia, but which has not been funded through Medicare and so has had very limited availability. Soon, it will be available on the Medicare Benefits Schedule for people with depression that hasn’t responded to other …
As the global COVID-19 pandemic lessens, mental health care professionals are now concerned with confronting post-COVID stress disorder. To understand the connection between the psychological impact of COVID-19 and PTSD, an Italian survey (the COVID-19-PTSD questionnaire) was created to study this connection. “These results are relevant from a clinical point of view because they suggest …
