Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): An entirely novel form of treatment in psychiatry and a groundbreaking opportunity for psychiatric mental health nursing

摘要

Advances in brain stimulation such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) represent exciting new frontiers at the interface of practice, research, and education in psychiatric-mental health nursing. Noninvasive, focal, therapeutic brain stimulation is a rapidly emerging field in psychiatry. TMS, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in October 2008 for treatment of unipolar depression with one failed antidepressant treatment in the current episode, is a highly innovative treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD).