NMedication or psychotherapy does not always work against severe depression. At the Vitos Clinic Eichberg near Eltville, these patients have been treated with magnetic stimulation for a few weeks. “Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation” (rTMS) is considered a supplement to classic psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment and is used alongside electroconvulsion therapy, which has been established since 2021.
According to Vitos, rTMS is an “innovative, neuroscientifically based treatment method in which a pulsating magnetic field is used to specifically and non-invasively balance brain activities that are out of balance”. With the electromagnetic pulses of the device, which costs 70,000 euros, certain areas of the brain can be specifically stimulated or their activity inhibited, as it goes on to say. This leads to an alleviation of the symptoms. According to Vitos, rTMS therapy is primarily used in psychiatry for patients with severe depression.
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