Stimulation Device Shows ‘Immediate’ Impact on Depression

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Stimulation Device Shows ‘Immediate’ Impact on Depression

Stimulation with a low-strength electromagnetic field device immediately improves mood in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BPD), new research shows.

Results from a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study* are exciting, especially because the effects were so rapid, lead author Michael L. Rohan, PhD, a physicist at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, told Medscape Medical News.

“I think we have something that is working on the depressed state in either major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder,” said Dr. Rohan. “Whether it’s more effective in either one of them, we don’t know, but it seems to have an immediate effect on the depressed state.”

The device holds “great potential” as a clinical tool for psychiatrists, Dr. Rohan added.

The study was published in the August 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry.
* = this is the “gold standard” of medical testing, leaving the least amount of doubt about the results.

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