How to Use transcranial magnetic stimulation in a Sentence

transcranial magnetic stimulation

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The article is packed with descriptions of cutting-edge treatments such as transcranial magnetic stimulation.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Kim said that Ryan wound up continuing transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment at Insight Choices.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024