Rodríguez Hernández Cristina, Medrano Espinosa Omar, Sampieri-Cabrera Raúl, Oviedo Lara Alan R
Psychiatry, Rome Psiquiatría Integral, Mexico City, MEX.
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MEX.
Cureus. 2024 May 3;16(5):e59612. doi: 10.7759/cureus.59612. eCollection 2024 May.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique that induces action potentials in the stimulated cortical area and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The prevalence of MDD in Mexico almost tripled after the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we evaluated the safety and therapeutic effects of low-intensity TMS (Li-TMS) - characterized by inducing electric currents below the action potential threshold on the cerebral cortex - in 41 subjects diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). A Li-TMS device dispensed repetitive magnetic pulses at 30 mT for 60 minutes during 20 sessions (once daily from Monday to Saturday) with the theta burst pattern. Our results suggest that Li-TMS is a safe therapy with antidepressant effects, demonstrated by the decrease in Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores and lessening of depressive symptoms.
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