Researchers build magnetic computer that thinks like a brain

In the future, a new type of computer may be able to learn much like you do—by experience rather than endless repetition or ...
MassLive

Brain stimulation center offers hope for treating major depression

SPRINGFIELD - Last summer, Achieve TMS East opened a center in the city's North End to offer deep transcranial magnetic stimulation to people with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. Its ...
WYSO Public Radio

This Ohio veteran is fighting for mental health care in the state’s most rural communities

Dirk Harkins says Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation saved his life. Now, he’s working to ensure more rural Ohioans have ...
Newsday

Magnetic brain stimulation to treat schizophrenia being studied at Manhasset's Feinstein Institutes

Scientists on Long Island are set to start a study that could help determine whether magnetic brain stimulation can help people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The Feinstein Institutes for ...
SFGate

Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the brain – podcast

(THE CONVERSATION) Mental illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction are notoriously hard to treat and often don’t respond to drugs. But a new wave of treatments that ...
STAT

Jolting the brain’s circuits with electricity is moving from radical to almost mainstream therapy. Some crucial hurdles remain

In June 2015, biology professor Colleen Hanlon went to a conference on drug dependence. As she met other researchers and wandered around a glitzy Phoenix resort’s conference rooms to learn about the ...
The Hill

Brain implant helps woman with severe depression by zapping her with electricity

Depression and its symptoms are a result of complex brain activity. A group of researchers studied one woman’s brain for 10 days to figure out which parts were active during depressive symptoms and ...