BOZEMAN \u2014 It sounds like science fiction, but it’s just science. <\/p>\n
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive treatment that uses targeted magnetic pulses to stimulate parts of the brain associated with mood regulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have actually experienced depression on and off for about ten years,\u201d said Liz Orman, a Bozeman resident who has undergone TMS.<\/p>\n
Orman is among the 34% of Montanans who\u2019ve reported experiencing depression. After trying multiple antidepressants with little success, she said TMS was introduced to her at Psychiatry Associates.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere at Psychiatry Associates, which had introduced TMS to me around the fourth antidepressant that I\u2019d been trying\u2026\u201d Liz recalled.<\/p>\n
During TMS treatment, patients remain fully awake while a machine delivers focused magnetic pulses to targeted areas of the brain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn’t \u2018wooey\u2019\u2014it\u2019s science. It is absolute cutting-edge neuroscience to demonstrate brain connectivity,\u201d said Dr. Jami Eschler, a psychiatrist at Psychiatry Associates.<\/p>\n
She explained that TMS is especially helpful for those who are medication-resistant, like Liz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis can result in a significant response for those patients\u2014up to 70% improvement in depression and anxiety symptoms,\u201d Eschler said.<\/p>\n
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more than 163,000 adults in Montana live with a mental health condition\u2014nearly three times the population of Bozeman.<\/p>\n
And while treatments like TMS are becoming more available in places like Bozeman and Billings, access remains a challenge: nearly 600,000 Montanans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals.<\/p>\n
To better understand the science behind the treatment, I spoke with Dr. Ana Stan, also a psychiatrist at Psychiatry Associates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe TMS coil that is applied to the frontal cortex delivers varying magnetic fields that are transformed into electrical fields that increase the connection between the regions involving mood,\u201d said Dr. Stan.<\/p>\n
She says those disconnected mood-regulating areas begin communicating again, something that can be seen in brain scans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis actually is a depressed brain with no electrical activity, and this is a non-depressed brain,\u201d said Orman, showing her own results.<\/p>\n
But for her, the difference goes beyond the scans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say there are providers in your community who sincerely care about you and your mental health, Psychiatry Associates being one of them,\u201d Orman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOZEMAN \u2014 It sounds like science fiction, but it’s just science. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[40059,40060,1301,40061,40062,105,218,40063,40064,40065,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-82741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-bozeman-mental-health","9":"tag-bozeman-mt","10":"tag-depression","11":"tag-depression-treatment-bozeman","12":"tag-gallatin-county-mental-health","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-montana-mental-health","16":"tag-tms","17":"tag-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114468414915963529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}