On 25/03/2019 MSCR started their Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation outpatient service in partnership with TMS Australia.

 

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a drug-free, safe and effective treatment for depression. It is recommended on the college of Psychiatry guidelines. It is very different from ECT because it doesn’t send electricity to the brain and doesn’t require anaesthesia. Instead it uses targeted magnetic pulses to turn on the positive mood pathways in the brain, which are underactive in depression. It also has very few side effects, so patients don’t need to take time off of work to come in for treatment. Treatment sessions take 60 minutes and patients can drive home or return to work. If your antidepressants are not working, patients may be suitable for TMS as it offers a 38% remission rates and a 57% response rate.

 

The TMS Australia clinics were founded in 2016 by psychiatrists Professor Paul Fitzgerald – one of the world’s foremost TMS experts – and Dr Ted Cassidy, who both have extensive experience treating depression using TMS. They were motivated to bring outpatient TMS treatment to the forefront of mental healthcare as a safe and effective treatment for depression as it was internationally.

 

Visit the TMS Australia website for more information: keilor.tmsaustralia.com.au, and ask us whether TMS is right for you.