Biol Psychiatry: TMS+behavioral intervention to treat PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety-related disorder caused by traumatic experiences such as wars, terrorist attacks, violent crimes, accidents, and natural disasters

1) Intrusive re-experience of traumatic events in the form of nightmares, flashbacks or intrusive memories;

2) Avoid trauma-related irritation;

3) Negative cognition and emotion;

4) Symptoms of hyperexcitability, such as exaggerated startle reactions, angry outbursts, sleep disturbances, and continuous alert response preparations

Moshe Isserles et al.

125 outpatients were randomly divided into two groups after exposure to trauma

At the 5th week, the scores of the PTSD scale (DSM-5) of the two groups were significantly improved, but the improvement of the dTMS group (16.

Clinicians performed DSM-5 PTSD scale (CAPS-5) scores on deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) and sham treatment groups

In summary, this study shows that the overall response of using ultrashort SDI surgery combined with false cranial magnetic stimulation is better than expected

Original source

Isserles M, Tendler A, Roth Y, Bystritsky A, Blumberger DM, Ward H, et al.