Despite major advances in treating depression, nearly 30 percent of patients don’t benefit from drug therapy. More than half report side effects— including tremors, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and sleep disorders—that lead to noncompliance with medication regimes. Now Carr and a growing number of patients who fail to improve with antidepressant drugs say they’re finding relief via a electromagnetic therapy called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Charmain Carr: Neuronetics Uses Magnetism to Lift Depression
Fans of The Sound of Music will remember the scene in which Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter, radiantly sings: “I am 16, going on 17.” In real life, actress Charmian Carr, who played the teenager in the 1965 movie, hasn’t felt radiant for decades. Now a grandmother, Carr has suffered from severe clinical depression. Medications not only failed to help, but produced debilitating side effects. “People thought I had Parkinson’s disease because I shake so much from all of the medicines,” the actress explains in a June YouTube video made about her case by the UCLA Depression Research & Clinic Program.
Despite major advances in treating depression, nearly 30 percent of patients don’t benefit from drug therapy. More than half report side effects— including tremors, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and sleep disorders—that lead to noncompliance with medication regimes. Now Carr and a growing number of patients who fail to improve with antidepressant drugs say they’re finding relief via a electromagnetic therapy called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
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Despite major advances in treating depression, nearly 30 percent of patients don’t benefit from drug therapy. More than half report side effects— including tremors, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and sleep disorders—that lead to noncompliance with medication regimes. Now Carr and a growing number of patients who fail to improve with antidepressant drugs say they’re finding relief via a electromagnetic therapy called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
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