ect Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:34:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ect Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 TMS Updates May 2015 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/tms-updates-may-2015/ Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:50:17 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9350 The editors of Bipolar News reported on some interesting presentations related to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) at the Biological Psychiatry meetings this past May. TMS for geriatric depression – “Researcher Daniel Blumberger reported that he has found repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to be effective for depression in late life. Blumberger noted thatit may be necessary to use higher intensity ...

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]]> 9350 ECT for Bipolar Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/ect-bipolar-depression/ Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:57:05 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8839 ECT for bipolar depression may be much more effective than psychiatric medications. That is the conclusion of the recently published, well designed study of 73 in patients with bipolar depression who had failed adequate trials with mood stabilizers. In the initial 2 months after the patients were randomized to either ECT or algorithm based pharmacotherapy (psychiatric medications carefully managed and ...

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