Category Archives: neuroscience

TMS works most of the time our offices.  Right now, >70% get to remission, and 90% of patients get response, that means less than 10% of patients don’t respond to TMS treatments.   WE are really excited by these numbers, but that 10% non-response is hard on patients and us.  I have always said if we …

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Dr. Jonathan Becker joins the NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Centers in January 2021.  We are excited to have him join our clinical staff at the Brentwood Medical Center location.  Dr. Becker brings with him a wealth of knowledge and clinical expertise from Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he has been a psychiatrist for a decade.  …

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We have anxiously awaited the arrival of the COVID-19 Vaccine, and our staff has begun getting immunizations.  The currently available vaccines require two injections, so staff will not be fully immunized until late January/early February 2021 (depending on their initial injection). Regardless of vaccination, the staff at NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Centers will continue to …

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DEPRESSION HELP – quickly.  The NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Center is committed to improving processes, to help YOU get help for depression, quickly.  Being a full-service psychiatric clinic, we offer many services.  With the stress of racial injustices, COVID-19, & political fear-mongering, we implemented more efficient processes to help reach staff and get help.  We …

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Everyone at the NeuroScience & TMS Treatment Centers joins me in our concern for the safety of you, our staff, and all the world. After working virtually except for New patient appointments and TMS treatments for most of March and April, we are back fully in both clinic sites. Our Brentwood location is within a …

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by Ali T. Self, LMSW So, how are you doing out there?  We are living in an unprecedented time.  It is very weird and wild.  Tornadoes and then SARS-CoV2.  Whether you are on the front lines of the hospital, grocery stores or isolated at home, it is NOT easy.  As the physical isolation continues, it is vital to …

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Long before the panic of COVID -19 infections peaked in Nashville, the NeuroScience & TMS Centers had safety as a priority.  Our TMS operators and staff are certified and have been trained both nationally and locally.  The medical director and TMS Coordinator train others nationally and internationally to administer TMS safely. In the first week …

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At the start of each TMS Treatment course, the standard of care is for the prescribing physician to locate the treatment location and complete an initial motor threshold or strength of the TMS device needed for adequate effective treatment.  In this image, Dr. Cochran and Professor Tony Barker are demonstrating the Beam F3 and the …

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The Clinical TMS Society held its first PULSES program for the year.  The largest class of attendees (prescribers and technicians) came from throughout the US and Canada to learn from the experts.  Dr. Cochran and her colleague, Suzanne Kerns, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) with the assistance of Hien Huynh (of CTMSS’s management team), …

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2020 is here and with the new year and all the hope of a new decade, we wanted to announce new services offered through our clinics. In the NEW Brentwood Clinic, we now will have some new faces.  We are now offering therapy services with experienced in house therapists; we are training our new TMS …

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