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New Year, New Services

2020 is here and with the new year and all the hope of a new decade, we wanted to announce new services offered through our clinics. In the NEW Brentwood Clinic, we now will have some new faces.  We are now offering therapy services with experienced in house therapists; we are training our new TMS […]

New Location for NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Center

We moved to the Brentwood Medical Center in early December 2019.  The new space will help us better meet patient needs.  We have clinicians working every day of the work week to accomodate your schedule.  Call us to schedule a new patient appointment _  (615) 224-9800 to schedule an appointment.

Expanding our services to help change your mood for good

Counting down the days until we move into our new location at the Brentwood Medical Clinic.  Looking forward to the new updated space near our colleagues that refer to our services.  It’s been a long process, but we are excited by the new opportunities.

Out of Darkness

The NeuroScience and TMS Treatment Centers sponsored the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) Out of Darkness Walk this past Saturday. The Out of the Darkness Walks are proof that when people work together they can make big changes in the world. They are AFSP’s largest fundraiser and as such: 1)produce millions for suicide prevention programs, 2)unite […]

? Neurofeedback ?Neurotherapy ?QEEG Neurofeedback?

This is a third re-post of an earlier blog; Here is a discussion of Neurofeedback as a treatment, authored by Dr. Michelle Cochran. There continues to be a lot of buzz in Nashville about Neurotherapy, Neurofeedback, or EEG with neurofeedback for brain illnesses such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Generalized Anxiety […]

TMS might one day be used for Substance Use Disorders

According to a recent meta-analysis, TMS treatment of substance use disorders might eventually benefit patients.  Dr Cochran cautions that we are not there as yet, because the researchers noted that the positive effects of rTMS appeared to be short-lived and often wore off by follow-up (on average, four months later). The results were optimistic for reducing cravings […]

Feedback about PULSES course

Dr. Cochran was humbled to read this post from The Clinical TMS Society’s (CTMSS) website recently:  Nikki Santiago and Shari Paulson, TMS technicians who attended the PULSES course in San Francisco in May 2019, recently wrote this in the CTMSS online newsletter.  “At the PULSES course…, we participated in training that ranged from the science […]

Bio Dr. Cochran – July 2019

Lauren Valencia, Professor Tony Barker, and Dr. Michelle Cochran in London in July 2019 in front of a statue of Michael Faraday the scientist that discovered key electromagnetic principles which are used in TMS therapy. Michelle R. M. Cochran MD, DFAPA currently works in private practice in Nashville & Brentwood in both NeuroScience & TMS […]

Which heuristic should a clinician use?

Dr Cochran and Dr. Kerns demonstrated heuristics for placement of TMS Coils including the BEAM and a modified BEAM methods while at the LONDON, UK PULSES course on July 5th & 6th.  This course educates clinicians who are wanting to learn about TMS for use with psychiatric conditions. The most current published clinical consensus recommends […]

Successful PULSES course in LONDON, UK

Dr Cochran and Lauren Valencia LCSW, our TMS Supervisor, were honored to speak on behalf of the CTMSS society in London July 5 & 6th. Several junior doctors (residents) were awarded scholarships to attend so that the society could train up the next generation of physicians offering TMS for the treatment of psychiatric disease.

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