I wanted to do this episode, because when I did my episodes on electroconvulsive therapy (or ECT), I feel like I sounded a tiddly-bit dismissive of it, and I wanted to clarify what I meant when I said, “TMS, short for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain, as of yet is not nearly as efficacious as ECT.”  If you haven’t listened to the ECT episodes, you should still be able to follow this discussion, so don’t feel left out.  I give a history of TMS development, discuss some of its approved indications, and outline  three important ways that TMS is not as effective as ECT.  I also mention some promising evidence that TMS is gaining rapidly in at least two of these ways.

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