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Articles and reflections on TMS and mental health from our team.
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Special features
How to access TMS in South Africa
For a treatment to be genuinely accessible it must be both available and affordable. A look at where TMS stands in South Africa, and how to request funding.
Watch & readWhat you need to know about TMS
A clear rundown of what TMS is, its side effects, when it is used, what a session is like, and who delivers it.
Watch & readYou can heal from Depression
A first-hand account of treating a severely depressed patient,
and the lifestyle, therapy, medication and rewiring that make
recovery possible.
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All articles
TMS Basics
Rewiring the brain without surgery:
how TMS actually works
A plain-language look at how focused magnetic pulses reach an underactive mood circuit, and why the treatment needs no drugs or anaesthesia.
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Depression
After the first course: keeping
depression from coming back
Depression is often recurrent. Maintenance TMS is promising and widely used, but the best schedule is still being worked out.
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Safety
Is TMS safe? What decades of
data
actually show
TMS has an extensive safety record governed by international consensus guidelines, with serious adverse events being rare.
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Innovation
The three-minute treatment: how theta-burst stimulation changed TMS
A large non-inferiority trial showed a three-minute session could match a conventional 37-minute one, making effective TMS far more accessible.
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Innovation
Depression relief in days: the Stanford
SAINT breakthrough
The SAINT protocol compresses a course of TMS into five days using individualised targeting and high-dose theta-burst stimulation, with striking early results.
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Tinnitus
Can TMS quiet chronic tinnitus? An
honest look at the evidence
Chronic tinnitus is linked to overactive firing in the auditory cortex, which makes it a logical TMS target. The research, though, is genuinely mixed.
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Anxiety & PTSD
TMS for anxiety and PTSD: promising,
but read the fine print
The early evidence for generalised anxiety and PTSD is encouraging, but thinner than for depression, and the regulatory footing is different.
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OCD
A new frontier for OCD: what
deep TMS
can offer
In 2018 deep TMS became the first non-invasive brain-stimulation device cleared for OCD, on the strength of a multicentre randomised trial.
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Funding
Supporting patients to have
access to TMS
How partnering with FactTMS helps remove the barriers to treatment for patients who travel for care.
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TMS
What is the difference between ECT
and TMS?
A common question is whether TMS is like shock therapy. The short answer: TMS and ECT are very different treatments used in different circumstances.
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Clinic
Exciting updates from Rewire TMS clinics
We are moving two clinics, presenting on TMS at
the SASOP congress, and funders are starting to
come on board.
Funding
What's happening with the Medical Aids in
funding for TMS?
Why funders have been slow to pay for TMS, and how that is finally starting to change as the evidence and guidelines catch up.
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Mental Health, TMS
One year in: my reflections on
starting
Rewire TMS clinics
A year after opening Rewire, a reflection on scepticism turned to advocacy, and the transformations that changed my mind.
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Mental Health
What's new in treating depression?
A tour of the new toolbox of interventional psychiatry: ECT,
TMS, ketamine and psilocybin, and how neuroplasticity ties
them together.
TMS
Brain Support during TMS
TMS is a real time and financial commitment. Five things you can do, from medication to supplements to journalling, to help the process along.
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Mental Health
TMS: hope in the treatment of
resistant depression
Scepticism gave way to hope as study after study showed TMS helping patients that medication and
ECT could not reach.
Mental Health
Is recurrent depression unshakable?
Depression tends to recur, but it is not hopeless. A
look at the relationships and habits that help you get well and stay well.
Mental Health
Drained of all colour: what
is depression?
Depression is more than a low mood. A look at what it really
is, an illness of the brain, with real symptoms, causes and
effective treatment.
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