Muscles grow in magnetic fields.
External magnetic stimulation of the brain has been used to treat depression, but requires weeks or months to take effect.
Thanks to a new study by Stanford researchers that timeframe could be drastically reduced.
Using image analysis, the team discovered that in patients with severe depression, the brain region responsible for emotions sends signals that it’s having a bad day to the evaluation centre.
In healthy people, the communication is reversed. Personalised highly dosed magnetic pulses can restore the correct flow of signals – even in people deemed beyond recovery.
Meaning the brain analyses conditions before creating a feeling.
Depression can be detected through blood tests while a change of perspective helps with lighter mood swings.
