Weekly Dose of Wellness
The Benefits of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Community Hospital Long Beach has a commitment to provide comprehensive mental health treatment interventions to help adults through their times of crisis. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a treatment Community Hospital Long Beach offers that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. Listen as Dr. Todd Hutton, M.D., medical director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy, Community Hospital Long Beach explains who is appropriate for TMS, what are the response rates that he is seeing, what other conditions might this be used for and what is being researched?