Sandi,

I was watching the news this morning and a piece came on about transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression. It's still awaiting FDA approval, but the report was saying they should have it by early summer.

Anyways, they were interviewing some of the human lab rats that were receiving the treatments as clinical trials and they said the results were amazing. A number of individuals were saying that their depression was linked to other physical ailments...the pain was causing them to be depressed and the treatments were not only helping the depression, but the pain as well.

I thought of you and was getting ready to write the web-info down when Murphy's law struck....we had a flicker in our power from this snow storm we got overnight and I missed it \:\/

The news piece was from a research team out of South Carolina, so I started going through your post to see where abouts you live...couldn't find it and started to get a little cross eyed so I stopped looking. Hey! BTW....um...I saw a little tidbit about where you used to hang the Christmas Tinsle

Anyways, I did a quick search and found a bunch of links of similar trials across the country. Here's just a couple...

http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/20050410231942_health_news.shtml

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/MH00115

May or may not be helpful to ya, but wanted to pass it along.


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