TMS Therapy for Schizophrenia

Patients with schizophrenia can receive TMS therapy. This treatment can target the region in the brain responsible for generating this disorder’s symptoms. As a result, it can also reduce the severity of this mental condition. If you want to know more about TMS therapy for schizophrenia, here are the details.

Focuses on the voices

A common symptom of schizophrenia disorder is hearing voices that are not present. Schizophrenia is a disturbing condition. It shows cognitive, mood, and behavioral disturbances.

Patients with this condition are often challenging to treat. The symptoms change. Patients have different sets of symptoms. They also tend to respond to schizophrenia treatments in different ways. TMS can help target the symptoms.

Having hallucinations is a disturbing symptom of this mental condition. These can be tactile or visual hallucinations. The most common type is having auditory hallucinations. In this case, patients hear voices in their heads.

Auditory hallucinations are a primary indicator of a firm schizophrenia diagnosis. These are the most substantial of all symptoms. The voices can be threatening and confusing and can make it difficult to separate from what is real.

The voice could be familiar, like the voice of a dead loved one or the antagonizing voice of a stranger. There could also be many voices at once. These voices come from inside the patient’s mind. It tends to be exhausting, and the patient may feel as though they cannot escape it at all.

TMS is a non-intrusive technique. It uses magnets to stimulate brain activity. This therapy is a painless procedure capable of treating several conditions aside from severe, treatment-resistant depression. Schizophrenia can improve with the help of this therapy as well. In addition, using magnetic pulses can reduce auditory hallucinations.

How TMS treats schizophrenia symptoms

Patients with schizophrenia often do not respond to standard medications. Using this therapy to treat this mental condition can reduce auditory hallucinations. It can also bring cognitive benefits to patients. This can happen with sole TMS therapy or combining the treatment with other remission programs.

Schizophrenia symptoms can be positive or negative. The positive symptoms come from too much brain activity while negative symptoms come from very low brain activity. Treating these symptoms means modulating the brain. TMS is a technique capable of normalizing brain activity. It can either dampen or intensify the signaling of nerve cells.

TMS uses a magnetic coil to deliver magnetic pulses to specific brain areas. The impulses penetrate the scalp and skull. These magnetic currents can either reduce or trigger brain activity. This therapy can help psychiatrists understand what happens to the brain of a schizophrenic patient and can open a larger door to more effective treatments. In addition, TMS allows the doctor to classify the activity in the brain with more focus.

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TMS can open more opportunities to understand schizophrenia even more

Schizophrenia is a mental condition springing from either too much or too little brain activity. This disturbing mental condition is often difficult to treat. Patients tend to be unresponsive to medication. Your psychiatrist can use TMS to help improve symptoms of schizophrenia. This technique balances brain activity, leading to stable neural communication.

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