TMS - A brief history

PsyDactic - A podcast by T. Ryan O'Leary

Send us a textI wanted to do this episode, because when I did my episodes on electroconvulsive therapy (or ECT), I feel like I sounded a tiddly-bit dismissive of it, and I wanted to clarify what I meant when I said, “TMS, short for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain, as of yet is not nearly as efficacious as ECT.” If you haven’t listened to the ECT episodes, you should still be able to follow this discussion, so don’t feel left out. I give a history of TMS development,...