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What Is Brain stimulation?
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What Experts Say About Brain stimulation
- 1.Accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) compresses months of conventional TMS treatment into an intensive one-week protocol, involving hourly magnetic pulses for 10 hours a day.
- 2.The Saint protocol, developed at Stanford, has demonstrated 70-80% durable remission rates for depression in many patients.
- 3.The speaker experienced a significant reduction in severe anxiety and OCD symptoms (from 8/10 to 0/10 initially, and later to 1-2/10) through accelerated TMS.
- 4.Pre-dosing with descloer (DCS), an antibiotic that acts as a neuroplasticity catalyst, can significantly enhance the effectiveness of accelerated TMS, allowing for potentially equivalent results from a single day of treatment.
- 5.The effects of accelerated TMS can sometimes have a delayed onset, as experienced by the speaker in his first treatment, where improvement appeared 2-3 weeks post-treatment.
- 6.Intermittent ketosis and principles from metabolic psychiatry are presented as additional effective strategies for addressing psychiatric and psycho-emotional issues.