Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Be Combined with Antidepressants to Treat Depression? (1:03)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) typically is combined with antidepressants to treat depression with up to 80% success rate. In this video, Tarique Perera, MD, a psychiatrist with Contemporary Care of Connecticut, explains.
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[MUSIC] Absolutely. So if you look at that published data and the data that actually went to making TMS and indicate a treatment, they were done in people where treatment has taken off ampire presence and so them they are about 54% of people better. There's some out patient there thats coming out showing that, because that's not how we do it in real life.
So in real life what you do is you don't switch to TMS, you add TMS medication, get the first and complete better end, then gradually or the next six months or so get them off the months. So if you add TMS to the medications, you you may increase your outcome raised about 70-80% because of medication on their own maybe insufficient to get somebody better but they are still doing the biology.
The TMS may have been helped take the person over the top [MUSIC] [MUSIC].
Tarique Perera, MD, founded Contemporary Care of Connecticut, which specializes in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. His TMS practice has become one of the busiest in the country and has locations in Greenwich, CT and Darien, CT.
