Ian A Cook, MD, Director, Unipolar Depression Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses a new depression treatment using gentle brain stimulation and TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, rather than ECT or medication. The treatment was approved by the FDA in 2008.
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