{"id":136596,"date":"2022-03-11T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stanford-scientists-say-brain-magnets-can-relieve-depression"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:35:32","slug":"stanford-scientists-say-brain-magnets-can-relieve-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stanford-scientists-say-brain-magnets-can-relieve-depression","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Scientists Say Brain Magnets Can Relieve Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-scientists-say-brain-magnets-can-relieve-depression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that they were able to treat depression in patients by stimulating their brains with magnets.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.ajp.2021.20101429\" class=\"\"> study published on Friday<\/a> <i> 0, <\/i> the researchers found that nearly 80 percent of patients had experienced remission of their depression after the procedure, which is called Stanford neuromodulation therapy (SNT). The technique is a modified form of transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and works by delivering high doses of magnetic pulses into a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/depressed-woman-brain-implant\" class=\"\"> patient\u2019s brain<\/a> with a device containing magnetic coils placed outside of their skull. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The treatment takes just five days and is customized to each patient based on an MRI scan which shortens the typical timeline of rTMS treatment from a span of weeks into days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that they were able to treat depression in patients by stimulating their brains with magnets. In a study published on Friday 0, the researchers found that nearly 80 percent of patients had experienced remission of their depression after the procedure, which is called Stanford neuromodulation therapy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136596","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\/136596","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}