Do you or someone you know suffer from depression?
Are medications and other therapies not working?
Altum Health can help.
Brain Stimulation is a proven treatment for depression and other disorders
when medications and therapy have failed.
- Did you know 1 in 3 people suffering from depression do not respond to medications and other therapy?
- Another option is now available: a non-invasive form of brain stimulation known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS
- rTMS is a Health Canada-approved treatment for depression and is also being studied as an effective treatment for other psychiatric and neurological disorders.
- Unlike medication or psychotherapy, rTMS works by using powerful, focused magnetic field pulses to directly stimulate areas of the brain that are underactive or overactive, gradually returning them to healthy patterns of activity.
- The magnetic stimulation is delivered under MRI guidance to ensure that it reaches the intended areas of the brain.
- rTMS has been around for 20 years, and results have shown greater than 50% success rates with very little downside.