{"id":129780,"date":"2021-11-01T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/experimental-depression-treatment-is-nearly-80-effective-in-controlled-study"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:22:19","slug":"experimental-depression-treatment-is-nearly-80-effective-in-controlled-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/experimental-depression-treatment-is-nearly-80-effective-in-controlled-study","title":{"rendered":"Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-depression-treatment-is-nearly-80-effective-in-controlled-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of magnetic brain stimulation brought rapid remission to almost 80% of participants with severe depression in a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a>, known as Stanford accelerated intelligent neuromodulation therapy (SAINT) or simply Stanford neuromodulation therapy, is an intensive, individualized form of transcranial magnetic stimulation. In the study, remission typically occurred within days and lasted months. The only side effects were temporary fatigue and headaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt works well, it works quickly and it\u2019s noninvasive,\u201d said Nolan Williams, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. \u201cIt could be a game changer.\u201d Williams is the senior author of the study, which was published Oct. 29 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of magnetic brain stimulation brought rapid remission to almost 80% of participants with severe depression in a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The treatment, known as Stanford accelerated intelligent neuromodulation therapy (SAINT) or simply Stanford neuromodulation therapy, is an intensive, individualized form of transcranial magnetic stimulation. In the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}