Magnetic Resonance Therapy: Veterans say experimental PTSD treatment has changed their lives

[Bill USA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/brain-zapping-veterans-say-experimental-ptsd-treatment-has-changed-their-lives/2015/01/12/2fc8b3ca-58aa-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html

As doctors take on stubborn, baffling neurological disorders such as PTSD, autism and Alzheimer’s disease, they are turning to esoteric treatments that require journeys to unexplored frontiers.

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The 32-year-old veteran, who also suffered traumatic brain injury in the blast, credits his recovery to something called magnetic resonance therapy, or MRT — a procedure that pulses energy from magnetic coils into his cortex. He and scores of other combat vets have been drawn by word of mouth to a private clinic here for what some of them call “brain zapping.”

The unproven procedure is offered at the Brain Treatment Center, located in an unremarkable office park,[font size="3"] free of charge to former service members. The vets exit telling of a miracle cure, a transformation to tranquillity that they, their buddies and families can hardly believe[/font].

“It saved my life,” they say, one after another. “I got my husband back,” their wives say.

Glowing testimonials also flow from the parents of autistic children treated here, who say they’ve seen breakthroughs beyond all expectation: children who are truly communicating for the first time, learning normally, behaving like other youngsters instead of dwelling in unknowable private worlds.
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[Thor_MN]

3. According to the theory that cell phones could harm a person,

this should be freaking lethal - EMF at levels higher than we have common words for compared to cell phones...

Should be an instant tumor generator.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Very exciting.

As someone who has suffered from major depression for years, now complicated by a TBI I am always thrilled to read about potential new treatments.

"In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration approved the magnetic procedure — applied through what is called transcranial magnetic stimulation — for drug-resistant major depression. Published studies in recent years — one with 20 PTSD patients, another with 30 — reported significant reduction in symptoms in patients receiving this TMS care. The procedure has been shown to be safe and is offered for depression at medical centers including Johns Hopkins in Baltimore."

[Bill USA]

5. yeah. I guess unless you have a personal connection to it, the developments in article are less than

exciting.

Of course the article is not reporting on a scientific study. The article appeared in the paper because it's a new developmlnet, a therapy which may hold some promise of a more effective treatment of PTSD (something we need badly). DoD has started funding research into the effectiveness of this therapy. But it will take some time ... and money (pharmaceutical manufacturers aren't interested in funding a therapy that doesn't involve drugs!).