Interventional Neuromodulation: What Lies ahead in Psychiatry?

Abstract

using TMS has also been helpful in minimizing polypharmacy that often accompanies refractory depression and OCD and serves as an alternative, yet evidence-based, approach to treating patients who have struggled with medication side effects as well. Moving toward the future, we need to continue to build on the current evidence to develop clearly defined, standardized protocols for different neuropsychiatric conditions. Additionally, with the rapid pace at which uses for rTMS are expanding, clinicians can have a hard time keeping up with some of the newer protocols.3