If you are struggling with treatment-resistant depression, you may have found it difficult to get the relief you need from medications and therapy. We understand how challenging and frustrating this can be for our patients, who are looking for safe and rapid treatments to manage their mental health. Our mental health team offers NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy to potentially help you manage your treatment-resistant depression.
NeuroStar Advanced TMS is a non-surgical alternative to traditional mental health treatments in treating major depressive disorder. Let us help you explore the powerful role that TMS plays in managing your treatment-resistant depression—you are just a short phone call away.
Depression is not just psychological—it can be physical. Depression is a mental health disorder with neurobiological roots that deeply affects your brain on a cellular and molecular level. In fact, depression arises from changes in the structure, function, and chemistry of your brain—these changes disrupt critical mental processes that control and regulate your behavior, cognition, and emotional processes. It impacts important brain areas, such as the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala, and depression symptoms can arise from imbalances in serotonin, dopamine, and other neurotransmitters. Depression also impairs your brain’s ability to adapt to environmental effects (neuroplasticity)—affecting key brain processes like learning, memory, and repair.
At Genesis, we offer NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy, which does not have the same kind of systemic side-effects as medication. It works by using magnetic energy pulses to stimulate specific areas of your brain that are linked to depression. During your NeuroStar TMS procedure, our team will place an electromagnetic coil against your scalp, near these strategic brain areas. The device will send powerful electrical currents to your brain tissue to activate the cells in these key brain areas.
NeuroStar is a progressive treatment, which can help you achieve strong and sustainable results for up to 12 months (Dunner DL, et al. (2014). J Clin Psychiatry, 75(12):1394-1401.). The frequent energy pulses emitted by the NeuroStar device to your brain, over repeated sessions, stimulate your brain. This impacts your brain’s activity and connectivity—which enhances your neuroplasticity and overall function. It trains your brain to do this over time, so that eventually these functions occur independently, without the need for treatments. With this, TMS plays a highly effective role in managing your treatment-resistant depression.
Each NeuroStar treatment is personalized to your unique and individual needs. Throughout your treatment program, we will monitor your progress and adjust the intensity, frequency, and location of stimulation—ensuring that your NeuroStar TMS therapy program is actually managing your treatment-resistant depression.
This highly personalized approach is designed to create lasting changes in your brain function and mood regulation, giving you the potential to achieve remission.
At Genesis TMS and Wellness, we understand how challenging it can be to manage your treatment-resistant depression. If medication, psychotherapy, or other treatments are not helping you, NeuroStar TMS therapy could be your best option.
Let our expert mental health team help you discover how TMS can finally break the cycle and give you some relief – call us now for a consultation.
