How to Use transcranial magnetic stimulation in a Sentence
transcranial magnetic stimulation
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The hope is to then use neurostimulation, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, to activate those circuits in a more fruitful way.
—Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
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Some of its uses are well-established: transcranial magnetic stimulation is used in hospitals and clinics as a way to treat depression.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 4 Feb. 2023
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Other research subjects are receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation, in which current is delivered through a device held to the outside of the head.
—Caleb Hellerman, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
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The article is packed with descriptions of cutting-edge treatments such as transcranial magnetic stimulation.
—Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
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And in 2020, the Food and Drug Administration approved a transcranial magnetic stimulation device to help patients quit smoking, a milestone for substance use disorders.
—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
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To help people with depression realign the brain’s firing patterns and get traffic moving again, scientists are looking at new forms of a type of brain stimulation called transcranial magnetic stimulation.
—Marty Munson, Men's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
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The treatment that helped Blecher is called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and uses magnetic fields to stimulate regions of the brain involved in addiction.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
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Response rates in the initial phase of treatment were similar to those of oral medication and transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression, the researchers say.
—Katherine Dillinger and Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
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And newer therapeutic methods born of ECT, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, can focus on even smaller brain regions.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
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Her husband finally convinced her to meet with a psychiatrist offering a treatment called deep transcranial magnetic stimulation or deep TMS.
—CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
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Siddiqi and his team noted that a type of therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which stimulates nerves in the brain, could be a promising treatment for depression related to TBI when traditional therapies don’t work.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 5 July 2023
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More recently, in 2016, Italian scientists used transcranial magnetic stimulation during the rubber hand experiment to trigger electrical pulses in the region of the brain that controls hand movement.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
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In some instances a treatment called deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, might be used as an alternative or in combination with medication as a therapy.
—CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
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More recently, studies have started to focus on writing brain waves to directly insert information to the brain through, for example, transcranial magnetic stimulation.
—Rashed Haq, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
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Low-current brain stimulation has been studied for years, and is different from transcranial magnetic stimulation, which is increasingly being used to treat depression.
—Ian Haydon, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
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The lack of buy-in isn’t surprising to George, who saw a similar roadblock as a developer of a different form of noninvasive brain stimulation: transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of persistent depression.
—Katie Palmer, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
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Using either high- or low-frequency energy waves, the technique can reach brain structures much deeper than those accessible by transcranial magnetic stimulation.
—Caleb Hellerman, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
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Kim said that Ryan wound up continuing transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment at Insight Choices.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
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When abnormalities are detected, a machine therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) can send into the brain magnetic pulses powerful enough to shift and rewire those connections so their function is improved.
—Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2012
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She was then offered—and accepted—transcranial magnetic stimulation because previous studies showed its ability to correct abnormal activity in that network.
—Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2019
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Migraine specialists are also exploring other treatments, including forehead and eyelid surgery to decompress branches of the trigeminal nerve, as well as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive way of altering nerve cell activity.
—David Noonan, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
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Several noninvasive techniques, like transcranial magnetic stimulation, can stimulate people’s brain activity and are being tested as treatments for a range of psychiatric disorders.
—New York Times, 25 May 2021
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