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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

More on the hand-held-migraine-zapper (if you have aura)

by James on 14 July 2008

Noninvasive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, continues to be a topic of conversation in the medical world.  At its 50th conference, the American Headache Society listened to a positive report out of the Ohio State University about the TMS devices. The TMS is transforming from a large device in a specialist’s office to a handheld [...]

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New research on electrical and magnetic stimulation for migraine

by James on 10 June 2008

We’ve talked about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) before, in which a device looking like a hairdryer is put up to your head to stop the migraine chain reaction.  Using electrical and magnetic impulses to the brain to stop migraine is a progressing field of research. One problem with TMS is getting the device to point [...]

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