states that 78 percent of 29 participants in an SNT trial at Stanford University went into remission after just five days of treatment. Half the participants still felt better four weeks post-treatment, and the only side effects were a slight headache or fatigue.
“We took the same 90,000 magnetic pulses used in conventional TMS and reorganized them in space, time and dose,” says Williams. “It yielded a big uptick in efficiency, and we were able to get some people well in a single day or a few days.” Williams points out that when TMS was first developed 40 years ago, treatment approaches were limited by the technology of the time. Nor were they based on mammalian physiology. Recent breakthroughs in neurobiology research paired with technological advances have made it possible to better pinpoint the parts of the brain that might be repaired with magnetic stimulation.