Applications
Applications of TMS therapy are neurological and psychiatric disorders which are major public health issuee : stroke touches one individual out of 600 every year, chronic pain affects more than 7 % of the population, major depression 5 to 10 %...
TMS is used to treat these diseases, modulating locally modulate neuronal activity by short electromagnetic pulses generated by a stimulator. Painless and noninvasive, TMS can be an outpatient practice.
Many works are investigating TMS as a new solution for other neurological or psychiatric disorders (fibromyalgia, tinnitus, complex regional pain syndrome, Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addictions, anxiety, hallucinations...) and number of applications is expected to increase in the coming years.