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Ketamine & Esketamine: Busting the Myths

The drug, ketamine, comes in a variety of forms, potencies, and uses. For example, the medical community often uses it at high doses as an anesthetic and/or to help manage pain. Additionally, at lower, sub-anesthetic doses, clinicians may use ketamine to help treat depression. Nasal esketamine (Spravato®), which is the only FDA-approved ketamine-based treatment for …

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Insurance Coverage TMS Treatment of OCD

TMS is approved for the treatment of OCD and is expanding insurance coverage options!  Call our office today if you are interested!

Predicting response to TMS; we expect it 90% of the time

IMAGES: Blue image shows reduced Ge R, Downar J, Blumberger DM, Daskalakis ZJ, Vila-Rodriguez F.  Functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex predicts treatment outcome for rTMS in treatment-resistant depression at 3-month follow-up.  Brain Stimulation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.10.012 

Dr. Becker joins NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Centers

Depression help-quickly!

DEPRESSION HELP – quickly.  The NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Center is committed to improving processes, to help YOU get help for depression, quickly.  Being a full-service psychiatric clinic, we offer many services.  With the stress of racial injustices, COVID-19, & political fear-mongering, we implemented more efficient processes to help reach staff and get help.  We …

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Staying Safe while we care for YOU

Everyone at the NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Centers joins me in our concern for the safety of you, our staff, and all the world. After working virtually except for New patient appointments and TMS treatments for most of March and April, we are back fully in both clinic sites. Our Brentwood location is within a …

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Isolation

by Ali T. Self, LMSW So, how are you doing out there?  We are living in an unprecedented time.  It is very weird and wild.  Tornadoes and then SARS-CoV2.  Whether you are on the front lines of the hospital, grocery stores or isolated at home, it is NOT easy.  As the physical isolation continues, it is vital to …

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Staying safe

Long before the panic of COVID -19 infections peaked in Nashville, the NeuroScience & TMS Centers had safety as a priority.  Our TMS operators and staff are certified and have been trained both nationally and locally.  The medical director and TMS Coordinator train others nationally and internationally to administer TMS safely. In the first week …

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The Right Spot

At the start of each TMS Treatment course, the standard of care is for the prescribing physician to locate the treatment location and complete an initial motor threshold or strength of the TMS device needed for adequate effective treatment.  In this image, Dr. Cochran and Professor Tony Barker are demonstrating the Beam F3 and the …

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Dr Cochran co-chaired the PULSES course in Las Vegas this month

The Clinical TMS Society held its first PULSES program for the year.  The largest class of attendees (prescribers and technicians) came from throughout the US and Canada to learn from the experts.  Dr. Cochran and her colleague, Suzanne Kerns, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) with the assistance of Hien Huynh (of CTMSS’s management team), …

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