{"id":136724,"date":"2022-03-11T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/low-strength-brain-stimulation-may-be-effective-for-depression"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:27:49","slug":"low-strength-brain-stimulation-may-be-effective-for-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/low-strength-brain-stimulation-may-be-effective-for-depression","title":{"rendered":"Low strength brain stimulation may be effective for depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-strength-brain-stimulation-may-be-effective-for-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain stimulation treatments, like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are often effective for the treatment of depression. Like antidepressant medications, however, they typically have a delayed onset. For example, a patient may receive several weeks of regular ECT treatments before a full response is achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, there is an impetus to develop antidepressant treatments that act to rapidly improve mood.<\/p>\n<p>Low field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) is one such potential new <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> with rapid mood-elevating effects, as reported by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Weill Cornell Medical College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain stimulation treatments, like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are often effective for the treatment of depression. Like antidepressant medications, however, they typically have a delayed onset. For example, a patient may receive several weeks of regular ECT treatments before a full response is achieved. Thus, there is an impetus to develop [\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-136724","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\/136724","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=136724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}