FDA clears deep transcranial magnetic stimulation device to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder

___ BrainsWay’s Brain Stimulation Device Receives FDA Approval to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (IEEE Spectrum): “In 2013, Jerusalem-based BrainsWay began marketing a new type of brain stimulation device that uses magnetic pulses to treat major depressive disorder. Now, thanks to positive results in a study of 100 patients, the company has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the device for a second psychiatric condition—obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) … Typically, noninvasive electrical and magnetic fields applied to the scalp, such as in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), affect wide swaths on the brain, activating everything in their path. The most precise methods, deep brain stimulation techniques, require implanting an electrode deep into the brain. The new device, however, relies on deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep-TMS) to stimulate deep brain structures via powerful, carefully positioned electromagnets. The BrainsWay device stimulates the brain at greater depth and breadth than other TMS devices, claims company CEO Yaacov Michlin. “This allows us to noninvasively target previously unreachable areas of the brain,” he says. The Study: “BrainsWay’s FDA clearance for its OCD treatment was based on a pivotal, multicenter study demonstrating that after six weeks of treatment, there was a statistically significant improvement in the primary endpoint results for the active treatment grou...
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tags: Health & Wellness Technology brain-stimulation BrainsWay deep transcranial magnetic stimulation Deep-TMS device FDA Major Depressive Disorder obsessive-compulsive disorder tDCS Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation Source Type: blogs