http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Magnetic-pulses-cure-depression-experts/2007/05/02/1177788180512.html

A new technique of firing magnetic pulses into the brains of severely depressed people has produced startling successes, researchers say.

Melbourne scientists have tested a new therapy on depressed patients who do not respond to standard drug treatment and found half improved markedly.

The technique is a variation of so-called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), in which magnetic pulses are fired rapidly into the "overactive" parts of a depressed brain.

This therapy has a 30 per cent success rate, but researchers at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital realised they could lift this to 50 per cent by prepping the brain with a series of weak, high frequency pulses.

"Doing this in some way prepares the brain to respond better to the standard TMS therapy, which is quite remarkable," Professor Paul Fitzgerald told a national psychiatry conference on the Gold Coast.

I think I'll stick to the resonance of Ambient-Trance and some Darkwave. I even ran a Radio program playing the stuff. People loved my show so much, they told me they fell asleep in 15mins.

Getting mind massaged by an Orca is even better.

Alcohol is a drug Monk.

Is Booby posting cute puppy & kitten videos and defence topics in the so-called Environment board here therapy against depression? Can’t think of any other reason. Maybe he has no idea of the environment and ecology? Is that why OzPol is losing members and slipping down the Google rankings like you said?

freediver wrote on May 2^nd, 2007 at 9:48am:



it sounds wonderful

My board has a really crappy avatar. I would like the nice butterfly icon put in its place. Would take half a minute.

That is my avatar, codsy. I am talking about the totally crappy and stupid avatar to Critters and Gardens.

FD whines about costs, about membership, about low Google rankings but does not do the simplest little things to improve OzPol. Or bigger things like moving the idiot Booby from Environment, a major reason for the slide down the google rankings and loss of membership.

Clearly, Booby knows nothing about the environment or ecology, or anything much, like the difference between weather and climate.

Triggered? You must have a different definition.

You have publicly whinged out the money this costs you, membership and search engine rankings yet you do nothing about any of it. You have made OzPol faster which is nice. Thank you for that.

Still waiting for the nice board avatar and change of name tho, 10 months on, nothing has happened.